Examines the relationship between the historical roots of American Democracy and their applications to the world of commerce. Based on findings of the preeminent social scientists, the key value systems are defined and designed for plans of action. Explores the theoretical and applied principles that instruct how to motivate people and make organizations prosper. Uncovers the core values central to business success: ethics and morality; individualism and progress; equality and equity; work and achievement; productivity and efficiency; unity and patriotism. Gives an in-depoth look into the subject matters of pay equity, corporate social responsibility, and the role of the individual. Shows how to adopt a systemic model of doing business based on the cultural norms necessary to ensure an efficient and just work environment.

Chronicles the transformation of American enterprise in the past 250 years.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).

This book challenges readers to examine problems and to be aware of biases. It provides the tools to make informed ethical judgments, and tells readers what is required to form good moral habits and character.The primary focus of this book is on American business values, but it also examines how those values are influencing people throughout the world, and how American values are, in turn, being influenced by other peoples.For business advisors and consultants, as well as corporate managers.