Word: ethicality
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These corporate rules are designed to promote efficiency but actually work against innovation. In offices bound by stylized procedures, says Larrabee, followers of the Protestant Ethic who are more interested in getting work done than in obeying the rules are looked on as "sort of scabs." In self-defense, he adds, they often set up a kind of underground network. "They tend to conceal themselves, but they are in touch with one another, and they know whom they can trust." Such undergrounds also operate in government. Harlan Cleveland, an Assistant Secretary of State during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, once...
...true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There...
Indeed, the whole enchanted continent, originally colonized by white men in pursuit of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, is encapsulated in Macondo. The only trace of the Protestant ethic in the town is the operation of the U.S banana company-and the "gringos" are plainly mean, greedy, and probably crazy too. The Buendias, on the other hand, are inspired mainly by the magic in life. They see no limit of human potential, mostly because natural miracles abound-a plague of insomnia, showers of dead birds or yellow flowers, the arrival of death as a lady in blue. When...
...immature, fearful and dependent, unable to-defer gratification even briefly. Those individuals who proceeded from stem to tip rated high in such personality parameters as frustration-tolerance, self-security and confidence. In the American psychosocial tradition, they showed faith in the future, confidence in the Judeo-Christian ethic, and a conviction that delayed gratification is morally correct." Then there is the matter of eggs: "Several of the students, speaking of their reactions to poached eggs, wondered if they had really been born...
Grinspoon suggested several cultural rationalizations for the ban on marijuana. He said that intoxication by marijuana is "an easily gained pleasure which was in conflict with the Protestant ethic of earning whatever is received...