ABSTRACT
Work is often dedicated to material advancement and productivity. Work is a social activity; spirituality often a personal endeavor. More recently for social scientists the concept of spirituality at work has surfaced in the concept of spiritual intelligence: the idea that spirituality is ability as well as a preference. Money and happiness is akin to the issue of materialism and spirituality. The Judeo-Christian ethic is paradoxical on money. The idea that religious/spiritual values may be important at work goes back a long way. Perhaps the most well known theory of the effect of spirituality at work is referred to as the Protestant Work Ethic. It embodied the idea that work is not merely an economic activity but a spiritual end in, and of, itself. This chapter considers seven work-related ethics that are all forms of ethics. They are wealth ethic, welfare ethic, leisure ethic, sports ethic, narcissistic ethic, romantic ethic, and being ethic.
