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Q&A: Views on Workplace Loyalty
What are your views on workplace loyalty? Is it a rare commodity?
I have written about the evolution of loyalty between employees and their respective corporations. In one of my blogs at Harvard Business Review, I look at this loyalty question. I call it trust.
Here’s the equation I believe will form the basis of trust between corporations and workers for the decades ahead: The organization will provide interesting and challenging work. The individual will invest discretionary effort in the task and produce relevant results. When one or both sides of this equation are no longer possible (for whatever reasons) the relationship will end. So if the organization no longer has interesting or challenging work for the individual to do, or if the individual is no longer willing or able to engage in the work — to invest the levels of discretionary effort required for excellent results — it is in everyone’s best interest to part ways.
The implications to this new way of working together will clearly change business talent management practices. It will require strengthening engagement and the quality of the immediate opportunities within the organization.
Related Reading:
The Shifting Definition of Worker Loyalty
Filed under: Surviving in Today's Economy | Published: 10/27/11
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