Be Loyal to Your Employees, and They Will Return the Favor
This weekend, there was an excellent article written by Penelope Trunk of the Brazen Careerist Blog (posted on Boston.com) entitled Being loyal can be a selfish act.
The piece focuses on the many layers of loyalty, and that while companies complain that younger employees don’t stick around, it’s might be because their employer don’t give them a reason to be loyal.
“Loyalty as a function of time is a dated idea,” says Jaerid Rossi, process engineer at Specialty Minerals of Canaan, Conn. “Work is only appealing if there’s constant learning.”
Penelope writes that the key to an employee establishing a true connection with their job is to be part of something that bigger than themselves.
“People are their best when they have obligations not only to themselves, but to other people as well,” says says Bill Taylor, cofounder of the magazine Fast Company and coauthor of the book, ‘Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win.’ “People do their best work when they identify themselves as part of a team or a project.”
Penelope’s blog can be found here.
Loyalty, Brazen Careerist, Boston.com
December 14th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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