We have both read your article and find it great. It is difficult for a non
religious sole like me to absorb these concepts but you have much clarified
it for me .

Does it come down to being honest and straightforward at work?

Being honest and straightforward at work is a commendable ideal. Most people are honest and straightforward at work but they continue to serve the dominant culture that exploits their honesty and straightforwardness so that their work continues to serve the objectives of the dominant culture which are often NOT honest and straightforward. An extreme example, I suppose, would be all those German bureaucrats who were honestly and straightforwardly processing the deportation of Jews to Hitler's concentration camps.

The question I am trying to get at in my paper is simple. Work is serving a purpose. What is the purpose? What is the "good" it serves? For Hitler, the "good" was the extermination of the Jewish people. For the young broker in the movie Wall Street, the "good" was "more money than you have ever dreamed of" In each example, the dominant culture's definition of "good" relativized and overwhelmed the alternative "good" which was respect for human life and the value of integrity.

My point is that when we boil it all down there is only one "good" that our work ought to serve. The good is God's "good". What does God think is good? How can our work be made to serve God's good? That is the starting point for our work, and if you read Ben Meyer's quote you will get a sense of how I think God's good translates into the 21st century.