ABSTRACT
Energy accomplishes more than genius. Samuel Smiles Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naive psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert. R.H. TawneyIf work were a good thing, the rich would have found a way to keep it to themselves. The Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) remains a topic of considerable interest to academics and laymen alike. For some the concept is descriptively inaccurate, explanatory tautologous, and scientifically meaningless. While the recent critique of thinking on the PWE by Nord et al. is to be welcomed, it too has its dangers. It is all very well to accuse organizational psychologists of unconscious ideology while simultaneously supposing that one is entirely objective.
