Loyalty and Ethical

Behaviour

Loyalty
Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause.
Misplaced loyalty (or mistaken loyalty) is loyalty placed in other persons or
organizations where that loyalty is not acknowledged or respected; is betrayed or taken
advantage of. It can also mean loyalty to a malignant or misguided cause .

Loyalty
Loyalties differ in basis according to what foundation they are constructed upon.
Loyalties may be constructed upon the basis of unalterable facts that constitute a
personal connection between the subject and the object of the loyalty. Alternatively, at
the opposite end of the spectrum, they may be constructed out of personal choice
and evaluation of criteria with a full degree of freedom, unprejudiced by circumstances
and facts over which one has no control.

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Loyalties differ in strength. They can range from supreme loyalties, that override all
other considerations, to merely presumptive loyalties, that affect one's presumptions.
The strength of loyalty is often interrelated with basis. "Blood is thicker than water."
states an aphorism, explaining that loyalties that have biological ties as their bases are
generally stronger than loyalties that do not.

Loyalty
Loyalties differ in scope. They range from loyalties with limited scope, that require few
actions of the subject, to loyalties with broad or even unlimited scopes, which require
many actions, or indeed to do whatever may be necessary in support of the loyalty.
Loyalty to one's job, for example, may require no more action than simple punctuality and
performance of the tasks that the job requires. Loyalty to a family member can, in
contrast, have a very broad effect upon one's actions, requiring considerable personal
sacrifice. Scope encompasses an element of constraint. Where two or more loyalties
conflict, their scopes determine what weight to give to the alternative courses
of action required by each loyalty.

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Loyalties differ in legitimacy. This is of particular relevance to the conflicts between
multiple loyalties. People with one loyalty can hold that another, conflicting, loyalty is
either legitimate or illegitimate. At the other end of the spectrum, is the positive regard of
other people's loyalties.

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Finally, loyalties differ in the attitude that the subjects of the loyalties have towards
other people. (Note that this dimension of loyalty concerns the subjects of the loyalty,
whereas legitimacy, above, concerns the loyalties themselves.) People may have one of a
range of possible attitudes towards others who do not share their loyalties, with hate and
disdain at one end, indifference in the middle, and concern and positive feeling at the other

Company Loyalty
Two Kinds :
1. Narrow Company Loyalty : The narrow definition pertains to employment: the loyal
employee sticks with the company instead of looking for work elsewhere, especially
during economic booms when jobs are plentiful and moving on is easy.
2. Broad Company Loyalty : The broad definition of company loyalty goes beyond
employment questions and measures an employees willingness to sacrifice income,
leisure time, personal relationships, family responsibilities, and general life aspirations in
the name of the organization. To create this dynamic of sacrifice, two distinct kinds of
relationships with the organization are required:

Broad Company Loyalty

To create this dynamic of sacrifice, two distinct kinds of relationships with the
organization are required:
1. Attachment to the organization that is non instrumental. This means the
attachment isnt maintained only because it serves the employees concrete interests,
such as the need for a salary to pay the rent and grocery bills.
2. A deposited value in the organization that goes beyond any individual and their
attachment; the organizations value continues even without those who currently feel
it.

Three Degrees of Loyalty

1. Obedience Loyalty : Which is an extreme case, works from the idea that the organization is
worthy and the employee is comparatively worthless or only worthwhile to the extent he or she
serves the organization.
2.Balanced Loyalty : is a situation where both the employee and the organization recognize in
each other an independent value. In this case, the employee can be expected to make
sacrificespossibly even do things he or she would normally consider unethicalin the name of
serving the larger organization. One example would be a lawyer working in a public defenders
office, one who believes that the.
Buying the companys products (though they arent the personal preference),
Evangelizing in public life (telling your friends how great the company or its products are),

Three Degrees of Loyalty

Free agency : (is the extreme on the bottom end the absence of loyalty ) its
ultimately impossible to be loyal to a typical company because profitmaking
institutions just arent the kinds of things that can properly demand or
receive any loyalty.
Moneymaking businesses, on the other hand, are incapable of that kind of
unconditional fidelity. On the contrary, the only desire most private
enterprises know is the one to serve its own interests by making more profits.
If thats rightif companies have no loyalty to givethen its employees cant
enter into that kind of relationship.