Essays on Pygmalion

Pygmalion is one of the most famous plays created by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. The play is named after a character of Greek mythology, which, according to the legend, fell in love with the statue he created with his own hands. The name symbolically reflects the plot and the main argument of the play with some difference. The events described in the text take place in England at the beginning of the XX century. Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics, once meets a poor flower girl, Eliza, who sells flowers on the street. Her manners and speech are far ...

Managers play a pivotal role in organizations and a managerial roles gap analysis reveals the need for leadership training, as it is evident in the twenty-first century business organizations (Mintzberg,1990). Although management and leadership require different set of skills depending on the expected outcome both are needed and it works like a “trim-tab”, that steers the rudder of the organization in the right direction! While managements primary function is to maintain and improve the existing status quo, the role of leadership and mastering business leadership skills calls for the characteristic traits of courage and commitment to move beyond ...

Introduction

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most notable playwrights in history because of his ingenious and though-provoking plays. Shaw’s works are influential because they urge people to ask the difficult questions. Many people may disagree with Shaw’s views, specifically those that he writes in his plays but through his works, he helps people think about society and life. By Shaw’s criteria, we can call him a gentleman playwright because according to him, “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” By sharing his ingénue with the world through his ...

One evening when it was raining heavily, people gathered to hide from rain near a church in London. There were few gentlemen who were talking with each other. Among these people were the poor girl named Liza. Liza was a girl selling flowers and she was a good looking girl with dirty clothes and very odd accent. In the due time there came a man named Colonel Pickering, Liza went to him and asked him if he buys some flowers. Pickering refused buying, but he gave him some money. Along with Pickering was his friend Henry Higgins. He was a professor and knew many ...

Poverty is an ill that affects each and every society. The ill effects of poverty on life are vast; poverty prevents people from enjoying good standards of living, it prevents children from getting quality education, and most worryingly of all, it makes people look down on one another. In essence, poverty should never exist. Inequality is a given, and as such, poverty is here to stay. The damaging effects of poverty though can be subdued with the help of technology. Not only does technology help in the spread of knowledge, but it also helps nations build their infrastructure, find alternative ...

In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle is initially nothing but a poor girl selling flowers on the street. Due to her incidental presence of Higgins and his bravado in discussing his abilities with Colonel Pickering, Eliza is swept up into a world that she would have been unable to touch without the help of Henry Higgins. Eliza speaks with a Cockney accent, making her incapable of breaking into the more refined world that she dreams of; Higgins takes her in and transforms her into a completely different woman. The transformation is that Eliza goes through not on the adoption of refined ...

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There have been several leadership theories that have been developed at different points of time. Sales and sales management has been a subject of many discussion, especially in the contemporary corporate world. Sales management has become increasingly complex as the dimension in the competitive environment increases daily. InsideView is a sales management solution that empowers the sales force with information about the prospects. One of the key philosophies of this solution ...

Despite the evolution of gender equality issues, there are still great differences between the educational goals and occupations held by both genders. Governmental programs in various countries have been designed to lure more women into fields that have been dominated by men, such as scientific and technological-based careers (Watt & Eccles, 2012). Some of these programs include the Workplace Gender Equality Act of 2012 in Australia, the Government Action Plan for Gender Equality in Finland, and even a program aimed at promoting gender equality in the workforce within developing countries. Yet, despite these programs, there still remains a large disparity between the ...

Introduction

Motivation is an incredibly important factor in education; it plays a critical role in student learning. This motivation can be intrinsic; namely, the motivation comes from a student’s own desire to learn. However, two other major motivating factors for students include extrinsic motivation from parents and teachers. These outside forces place a great deal of pressure on these students, placing expectations on them to perform in a certain way. However, these expectations may have unknown effects on these students. Students from ages 5 to 7 are in the early stages of education, and so trends and expectations established here can carry through ...

Marriage is considered an honorable institution. In the genre of literature, marriage and prostitution are common issues. One should consider the objective of marriage as a business in which people choose mates that are financially beneficial for both of the involved people. Society sees one as honorable while the other is considered an illegal act. Are these two a continuum of each other? As we examine such literary works as Pygmalion by Shaw and Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, and Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, we get a clear vision of these two entities. Prostitution is usually called the world’s ...

The article opens with a quotation from George Bernard Shaw’s land mark work Pygmalion in which the premise of the article is surmised. In this case the quotation implies that people behave not in a way which is a product of personal traits and qualities but in a way which reflects the expectations and treatment of the individual by those around them. As such, the author of the article raises key questions in the field of management from the outset despite thus far only getting one paragraph into the article.

Having quoted from Shaw’s Pygmalion Livingston (1988) then goes on to ...

Modern day managers who care less about employee motivation and satisfaction do so at the business’s peril. It is imperative that the business managers put in place strategies to maintain low staff turnover by placing value not only on clients but also on the employees (Grant, 1984). Fullerton and Toossi (2001) assert that doing this assures the business of continuity and gives it a competitive edge over its competitors. The case of a Peter Gibbons working for Initech exemplifies this issue by contrasting the working conditions at Initech to those at Coffee Beans.

Peter’s achievement orientation

Peter is not motivated and cares less ...