Protestant Work Ethic
Measures Organizational Culture.
Sample items
- “Most people spend too much time in unprofitable amusement”
- “Our society would have fewer problems if people had less leisure time”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.69–0.79 across reported samples.
Sources
- Mirels and Garrett (1971)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“population, wherever their comparison has been possible from the point of view of suicide, Protestants are found to kill themselves much more often than Catholics. There are even countries like the Upper Palatinate and Upper Bavaria, where the population is almost wholly…”
— Suicide a Study in Sociologymatch 48%
“Labor’s effectiveness was acknowledged because it was based on an ethical transcendence. Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse. The earth was…”
— Madness and Civilizationmatch 46%
“III Several facts confirm this explanation. First, of all great Protestant countries, England is the one where suicide is least developed. In fact, only about 80 suicides per million inhabitants are found there, whereas the reformed societies of Germany have from 140 to 400; and…”
— Suicide a Study in Sociologymatch 46%
Resources: Suicide a Study in Sociology · Madness and Civilization