Protestant Work Ethics Case Study

Learning Concept #1: Protestant Work Ethic

The author defines the Protestant work ethic as “commitment, hard work, loyalty, dedication, passion and self sacrifice” (Ward & Mama, 2006, P189) As the text continues the author explains how people are less willing to stick themselves out there for their employers because they feel that their employers are not willing to do the same for them. The author contends that “all the pieces of the protestant work ethic still need to exist for you as en employee” (P190) On page 191 the author lists some habits that we should avoid and some that we should start to adopt. Some habits that the author says we should avoid are: “Packing up and organizing your work area to leave before quitting time while you

We the students agree to do activities that we have some knowledge of but have no experience running them such as small groups to gain practical experience. The author suggests that we should look back at the learning agreement and ask ourselves questions to evaluate our outcomes from the tasks that we have done so far. The author gives some sample questions to help guide us, such as “How was you overall performance, do you have the potential to be an effective social worker, are your personal values consistent with social work values, is this the population you would consider working with after you graduate and lastly is social work the profession for you” (P193)

Learning Concept #3 Developing a New Learning Agreement

As the pervious concept made us look back on what we have already done this concept asks us to look forward and make a new plan to help meet the goals that we have yet not achieved. The author gives some question to help guide this process, some of them

I’ve never really heard of this concept before. What I found interesting is that a lot of these traits that the author says defines the concept are ones that everyone puts on the resumes as skills. I know for a fact that I have some of those listed on mine. I was interested to read about how this type of work ethic is not shown very much anymore because people are not willing to stick there neck out for employers which I cant 100% understand. A job is not a guarantee and a lot of people really don’t get the credit they deserve or the pay they deserve. The second concept that I chose relates to all the work that I put into my final evaluation. Going through and looking at everything that I had accomplished over the course of the semester it was amazing to see how far I went. The questions that the text had were very helpful with the reflective process. I found they were helpful because we as students are coming into the last few months of school and if buy now we have some doubts about whether or not we feel that this is the profession for us then we should really take a hard look at why we feel that way and why we have those doubts. The third concept that I chose fits in with the last one. Once we do our final semester eval then we should start looking at what we did not accomplish and what we did accomplish and start to create a plan to help us move forward in placement and to accomplish things that we did not