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	On work ethic
		However, it is hardly conceivable to live in a society with a work ethic and not to come under the influence of the work ethic oneself.
		Under conditions of resource specificity inculcating others with a work ethic, thus, is a measure to defend the expected value of the future benefits of past investment.
		In that case the work ethic may have a strong influence on economic performance, but not for the better but for the worse from the point of view of the original individual values.
	www.gmu.edu /jbc/fest/late_entries/Kliemt/KliemtPoB3(61-71).htm (2902 words)

	Work ethic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Work ethic is a set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence.
		An example would be the Protestant work ethic or Chinese work ethic.
		A work ethic may include being reliable, having initiative or maintaining social skills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Work_ethic (90 words)

	Is There Any Such A Thing As A Biblical Work Ethic
		Work was originally meant to be incredibly fulfilling and agricultural work became arduous after the Fall (Genesis 3:17) as a result of God cursing the adamah.
		Work is the engine of prosperity in a world that will quickly send you broke if you fail to master it - through the concentrated application of specific and applied wisdom in a spirit of excellence.
		Work is defined to include preaching the gospel and Christian ministry providing that it is done diligently.(1Thess 5:12,13) Support of Christian workers is commended and not seen as them merely indulging their religious sentiments.
	aibi.gospelcom.net /tmk/tmk12_biblical_work_ethic.htm (2990 words)

	Work Ethic
		work ethic is generally construed to be a good and laudable thing.
		work ethic is a characteristic attitude of a group toward what constitutes the morality of work.
		In fact, the past tense of work is worked or wrought, the latter which is “beaten out or shaped by hammering.” Thus having worked begins to gain something of a negative connotation.
	www.halexandria.org /dward333.htm (1151 words)

	Weber - Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		We must, in other words, work out in the course of the discussion, as its most important result, the best conceptual formulation of what we here understand by the spirit of capitalism, that is the best from the point of view which interests us here.
		The peculiarity of this philosophy of avarice appears to be the ideal of the honest man of recognized credit, and above all the idea of a duty of the individual toward the increase of his capital, which is assumed as an end in itself.
		It is an obligation which the individual is supposed to feel and does feel towards the content of his professional [11] activity, no matter in what it consists, in particular no matter whether it appears on the surface as a utilization of his personal powers, or only of his material possessions (as capital).
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Weber/PECAP.HTML (7444 words)

	Frontline Fellowship - Rediscovering the Christian Work Ethic
		Work is not a part of the curse.
		Work is not a curse to be avoided, nor is it an undesirable activity only to be pursued when necessary.
		We were not idle when we were with you...but worked with labour and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you...
	www.frontline.org.za /articles/Christian_work_ethic.htm (2803 words)

	Work Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Underlying questions concerning work ethics is the development of an acceptable definition that is current with today’s environment, the determination of whether work ethics is a teachable characteristic, and the development of acceptable and practical pedagogy.
		Work ethics is relative to the time period in which it is measured and the variables are not independently predictive.
		We must redefine work ethics to reflect the attitudes, desires, and behaviors of today’s employed if we are to develop pedagogy that will foster changes in worker behavior that will be sustained as situations change.
	fsweb.bainbridge.edu /techprep/WorkEthic1forNISOD.htm (1659 words)

	WorkEthics.org \| Powered by East Central Technnical College
		They express concern that a strong work ethic is increasingly difficult to find among employees and job applicants.
		Fifty-nine percent of the respondents ranked work ethics as the No. 1 necessary job skill, aside from the basic occupational skills needed to perform the job.
		have identified essential work ethics that should be taught and practiced in order to develop a viable and effective workforce.
	www.workethics.org (284 words)

	Electronic Culture - The Hacker Work Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In the sixth century, for example, Benedict's monastic rule required all monks to see the work assigned to them as their duty and warned work-shy brethren by noting that "idleness is the enemy of the soul." Monks were also not supposed to question the jobs they were given.
		Benedict's monastic rule even explained that the nature of the work did not matter because the highest purpose of work was not actually to get something done but to humble the worker's soul by making him do whatever is told-a principle that seems to be still active in a great number of offices.
		When work became an end in itself on earth, the clerics found it difficult to imagine Heaven as a place for mere time-wasting leisure, and work could no longer be seen as infernal punishment.
	www.netvironments.org /ECulture/Module3/HackerEthic/WorkEthic (3003 words)

	Amazon.fr : Work Ethic: Livres en anglais: Helen Molesworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Work Ethic, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, brings together a cross-section of such radical endeavors and opens a fresh perspective on their genesis and meaning.
		Work Ethic reproduces all the diverse material—Bruce Nauman videotapes to Roxy Paine’s painting machine-—in the Baltimore exhibition and provides insightful discussion of each piece’s history, structure, and significance.
		The exhibition, "Work Ethic," will be at The Baltimore Museum of Art from October 12, 2003, to January 11, 2004, and at the Des Moines Center for the Arts from May 15 to August 1, 2004.
	www.amazon.fr /Work-Ethic-Helen-Molesworth/dp/0271023341 (582 words)

	TALKING ABOUT WORK ACROSS GENERATIONS
		Japanese youth entering the work force often are referred to unaffectionately as "grasshoppers," a reference to their trend-oriented, play-loving, individualistic nature and tendency to hop from one job to another.
		This marks a dramatic shift in work ethic from the values and beliefs of their parents and grandparents, who were proud to display extreme levels of commitment, loyalty, sacrifice and hard work on behalf of their employers.
		Since work is a topic of interest to people in all stages of their life, it is an ideal discussion channel for promoting intergenerational understanding and acceptance.
	aginfo.psu.edu /News/february01/work.html (904 words)

	The American Work Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I worked alone at night after all the offices in the spooky three story building had closed, and was always in a mild state of terror.
		In Hebrew tradition, for example, work was considered a curse on humanity because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve.
		But those who worked in agriculture, handicrafts and commerce were also thought of as fulfilling their specific calling from God, which became necessary to help support the community.
	www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/Americanworkethic.htm (2748 words)

	Revisiting the work ethic in America - Articles Career Development Quarterly - Find Articles
		Discussion focuses on the American work ethic from both a historical and a modern-day perspective, highlighting the formation of what is now considered a major paradigm of work; views on the changing nature of the work ethic, especially for women and members of minority groups; and implications for career counselors.
		A condensed review of the work ethic and the issues related to the work ethic is followed by attention to implications for counseling and research.
		The work ethic in the United States is a construct of work that has a long history of evolution, with roots in religious concepts from Biblical times, Calvinist and Protestant asceticism, and the Industrial Revolution (Hill, 1996; Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2002; Peterson & Gonzalez, 2000; Tilgher, 1930).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JAX/is_2_52/ai_112090762 (744 words)

	article_Work Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Otherwise called a Protestant work ethic, a Google™ of the term “work ethic” yields a definition at Answers.com that reads, “A view of life that promotes hard work and self-discipline as a means to material prosperity.
		Your work ethic is how you feel deep down inside that you should behave and respond when it comes to deciding whether to work hard or not.
		Once you personally believe that a strong work ethic is a good thing, you can learn, implement, and build upon the behaviors and attitudes that demonstrate you have such an ethic.
	www.springboardtraining.com /article_work_ethic.html (1436 words)

	Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
		The Work Ethic Camp program is designed for first-time non-violent male and female offenders who would otherwise be prison bound.
		Following their stay at the Work Ethic Camp, the offender will be returned to the community, and probation supervision will continue by local probation staff.
		The philosophy of the Work Ethic Camp is that behavior and attitude that reflect positive work ethics can be learned and transferred to all areas of an individual's life.
	www.corrections.state.ne.us /institutions/wec.html (319 words)

	Anxiety Culture: The Puritan Work Ethic
		The available statistics don’t support the belief that hard work leads to wealth – for example, US government figures from the eighties showed the average savings of a person reaching retirement age in North America to be less than $500.
		Whatever its correlation with material wealth, hard work is undoubtedly seen as virtuous – the greatest tribute paid to the deceased seems to be “worked hard all his/her life”, although this epitaph sounds more appropriate for an item of machinery than a human being.
		A strange effect of the ‘dark ages’ view of work as atonement, is the idea that we should enjoy it, or at least try to look as if we’re enjoying it.
	www.anxietyculture.com /puritan.htm (1145 words)

	Work Ethics Online
		Several volumes have been written covering the ten work ethics topics that are used to teach the DTAE work ethics program in the classroom.
		The following ten topics have been identified as essential work ethics that should be taught and practiced in order to develop a viable and effective workforce.
		These ten work ethics traits stated below have been expanded to cover traits that should be taught and evaluated in online courses.
	www.gvtc.org /workethics.asp (182 words)

	Selling the Work Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		From being a Christian duty, work became associated with God's blessing, particularly if accompanied by the accumulation of wealth, a development which reached its apotheosis in ‘the American Dream’ and a society where status and wealth, especially wealth accrued through personal toil, are inextricably linked.
		Behind the veil of the work ethic the ‘robber barons’ of capitalism's heyday justified the accumulation of their vast wealth, J. Rockefeller even claiming that ‘God gave me my money’.
		Here her thesis would have benefited from greater emphasis on the postmodern analysis that identity is now a function of consumption rather than production, lessening the need for a ‘work ethic’ and with the consequent burgeoning of identity-based advertising.
	www.greenaudit.org /selling_the_work_ethic.htm (659 words)

	One Man Can Human Capital Development Article: Integrity and Work Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It's not a high paying position, the work is very physical, and it's a bit of a dirty job at times.
		Working together as a team, doing the little things -- again the little things make the big difference -- helps everyone keep on top of the job duties and makes the work lighter for everyone.
		Your work ethic is important to your personal integrity and the integrity of the team.
	www.onemancan.ca /articles/integrity_and_work_ethic.html (504 words)

	KRT Wire \| 10/11/2006 \| Clergy giving the work ethic a rest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Some ministers have been cautious about extolling the virtue of work, he said, "because they didn't want their parishioners taken advantage of by corporate giants." But as more people shift from corporate jobs to self-employment, he added, hard work may yield more rewards for the worker.
		Because many clergy members are isolated from the secular workplace, Beckett said, they assume that religious work and evangelism are the only kinds of work that "advance the kingdom." He'd like to see more ministers visit their worshippers' workplaces to see what that world involves.
		If many ministers are uncomfortable talking about the work ethic, they remain attached to the notion of "vocation" - the idea of finding one's calling, whether it's in the sacred or secular realm, and seeing work as holy.
	www.belleville.com /mld/belleville/living/15731982.htm (1264 words)

	"Work Ethic": Baltimore Museum of Art ArtForum - Find Articles
		Curator Helen Molesworth's "Work Ethic" ambitiously argues for a new approach to evaluating post-World War II artistic practice.
		The rich array of work by nearly fifty artists demonstrates how they have adopted administrative capacities and managerial identities, and favored conceptual processes over manual production, enacting modernity's paradigmatic shifts in labor.
		The artist as "experience maker"--the subject of the show's third section--exchanged profit motives and passive consumption for the promise of interactivity, as in Yoko Ono's notorious performance Cut Piece, 1964, in which the artist invited audience members onstage to scissor off parts of her clothing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389512 (724 words)

	Helen Molesworth: Work Ethic
		Work Ethic reproduces all the diverse material—Bruce Nauman videotapes to Roxy Paine's painting machine—in the Baltimore exhibition and provides insightful discussion of each piece’s history, structure, and significance.
		Throughout this catalogue, there is as well a lively dialogue on the museum's relationship to art that questions the rules of both the workplace and the art world.
		The exhibition, "Work Ethic," was at The Baltimore Museum of Art from October 12, 2003, to January 11, 2004, and at the Des Moines Center for the Arts from May 15 to August 1, 2004.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02334-1.html (516 words)

	Selling the Work Ethic: From puritan pulpit to corporate PR
		Prompted by her conviction that humanity needs to unlearn and change these powerfully held but now pathological values if we are to reverse the declining quality of life in industrial society, Dr Beder illuminates the impasse we are now in.
		THE concept of work as a determinant of personal value and identity, and as an indicator of good character and good morals, would have been alien in many past societies.
		It was after the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries that work acquired this moral dimension and became a defining characteristic of human existence.
	homepage.mac.com /herinst/sbeder/work.html (560 words)

	WorkingForChange-The guilt-free vacation
		The idea of vacations finally caught on in the middle and working classes, but it was never codified into the law.
		The irony is that "working vacation" came into the lingo with a wink and a nod.
		A working vacation means wearing boots while you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=15413 (751 words)

	- Books & Culture
		On one level, consumerism might be better understood as the work ethic of consumption.
		As for the bad history, there's plenty of evidence that technical development and workplace organization could have taken any number of directions, and that the path on which they were set—subdivided factory labor, assembly-line machinery, managerial supervision and discipline—was determined by merchants and manufacturers bent on controlling the labor of dispossessed artisans.
		The most penetrating Christian students of work in the last century, Gill and Weil asserted that work and beauty embraced when what the worker "likes to do is to please God," as Gill put it.
	www.christianitytoday.com /bc/2006/004/5.26.html (2342 words)

	How Ethical Is The Work 'Ethic'?
		Work is the first thing we do on most of the days of our lives, and we don't get to do anything else until we've been at work for quite a while.
		In short, "work" as we know it tends to make us unhappy because we do so much of it, because it is so repetitive, because we don't get to choose what we do, and because what we are doing is often not in the best interest of our fellow human beings.
		Certainly some company or another will have some suggestions for us, whether we receive them from advertising or watching our neighbors; but chances are that this company has their profits in mind at least as much as our satisfaction, and we may discover that playing miniature golf is strangely unfulfilling.
	deoxy.org /ct/ethicalworkethic.htm (1712 words)

	Play Journal: Play Ethic lecture, Brisbane Festival of Ideas
		The rise of ‘stress’ as a factor in our working lives is due to this lurch from a ‘work ethic’ to an ‘enterprise ethic’.
		And the ethical residue of work – that sense of duty to others, the notion of ‘good works’ – I think should be properly called ‘care’, rather than bound up in a term which can makes our altruism and empathy seem like a functional necessity.
		One of the interesting potentials for some of the typologies of play I talked about in the lecture is the possibility of allowing people their particular mix of freedom and security, risk and consensus, but in an optimistic, pro-autonomy environment that is some distance from the 'scarcity-fear' model.
	theplayethic.typepad.com /play_journal/2006/03/play_ethic_lect.html (7928 words)

	The Lazy Way to Success: Attacking the Work Ethic
		Hard work is enphasized in school for one reason there are things in life that your not going to enjoy but still need to be done.
		If work is challenging, and playful, we learn better and faster and than, work is more fun, it becomes a wow, and we do it with passion or engagement or however you want to call it.
		Of course "brute force" work is sometimes necessary for certain tasks in life(when you are in demotivated state for some reason), but the point is probably that hard work alone isn't good objective in your life/career (just to get money for example).
	lazyway.blogs.com /lazy_way/2005/03/attacking_the_w.html (1125 words)

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