OCCUPATIONAL WORK ETHIC INVENTORY

Occupational Work Ethic Inventory An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Fall 2012

OCCUPATIONAL WORK ETHIC INVENTORY Occupational Work Ethic Inventory Occupational Work Ethic Inventory is developed to evaluate the level of our ethical ability to accept desirable jobs. Once we indicate our sex, age, planned occupation, level of education and reason for taking inventory, we will answer many additional questions related to our self-esteem and features of character. There must certain understanding of that we are able to disclose all the peculiarities of the character only after having revealed all the things

mentioned above. After submission, we will know our weak areas and will strive to improve them for our own sake. We know that Max Weber and his theory of rationalization were totally based upon specific, systematic, empirical and historical research. According to him, human understanding is the best way of studying an occupation. Furthermore, such studies need to be connected with individual experiences, interactions and actions that would display the relevant outcome. In terms of this, we believe that Weber would analyze Occupational Work Ethic Inventory as rather ineffective due to its generalization and lack of reference to personal practice. From OWEI we see that a person is evaluated due to short replies to various general or abstract notions about a person or indicated post like intriguing, creative, challenging or admirable. What we can finally say about OWEI is that it is biased and followed common standards, failing to ask for individual skills and interests (Brauchle, 2009). The fact that it corresponds to reality is beyond any possible doubts. Respectively, we cannot but claim this statement to be straightforward and not controversial. Instead of testing area awareness, compliance of qualifications and personal experiences, it only questions our perceptions and produces subjective and general results.

OCCUPATIONAL WORK ETHIC INVENTORY And this leads to an argument that Occupational Work Ethic Inventory is only a social tool used like a psychological test to reveal some general things, which totally contrasts to Webers model about the rise of capitalism, where Calvinist religious ideas were thought to fuel capitalism as an economic system in all societies (Weber, 1991).

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References Brauchle, P. (2009). Revisiting the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory: A Classical Item Analysis. Illinois State University. Petty, G. (1993). Occupational Work Ethic Inventory. http://workethic.coe.uga.edu/cgi-bin/new_owei/owei.pl Weber, M. (1991). The Nature of Social Action. Weber: Selections in Translation, Cambridge University Press.