5, Who is a loyal employee
The Short Answer
Employee loyalty is more about an employee doing what they have to, and doing that with their utmost sincerity.
employee loyalty is more about an employee doing what they have to, and doing that with their utmost sincerity
Today’s context is more about delivery.
The meaning of loyalty is very different than what it was historically.
Rethinking Loyalty in Today’s Context
Loyalty is a very interesting word to be used in today’s context.
Employee loyalty has been used for many years as an important measurement factor, and even today, a lot of organisations talk about it.
The Traditional View of Loyalty
The old age Indian companies, and a lot of multinationals which come from particular countries, where people work for 10 to 20 years, assume and proudly state that these employees are loyal.
Separating Loyalty from Tenure
For this discussion, I would not like to combine loyalty to tenure.
I would like to state that employee loyalty is more about an employee doing what they have to, and doing that with their utmost sincerity.
That is what we say employee loyalty is.
employee loyalty is more about an employee doing what they have to, and doing that with their utmost sincerity
Loyalty in the Modern Workplace
Maybe historically, employee loyalty meant tenure, that a person is not leaving an organisation and going somewhere else, but today, what loyalty means is that even if someone works in an organisation for 6 months, during these six months the person is going to perform with their life and heart in it, their soul is going to be here, in that job.
The person will be 100% honest in terms of their work.
And whatever the person needs to do, they are going to do.
That is loyalty towards an organisation.
perform with their life and heart in it, their soul is going to be here . . . . . that is loyalty towards an organisation
Short Tenure, Genuine Loyalty
End of six months, it may happen that the person leaves the employer for whatever reasons.
But during the short 6 months, the person was loyal.
Why Old Beliefs No Longer Fit
Therefore, in today’s context we don’t believe that only people who stay in an organisation for more than three years, four years or five years, are loyal, and anybody who is working with an organisation for less than two – three or five years is not a loyal employee.
This kind of belief, is not fitting into today’s context.
Loyalty as Delivery
Today’s context is more about delivery.
And if we, as managers and employers understand this, if we, as managers understand this concept of loyalty, life is going to be interesting and exciting and less painful, both for the employee and the manager.
Today’s context is more about delivery. . . . life is going to be less painful, both for the employee and the manager
Letting Go Without Heartbreak
Whatever heartbreaks and whatever friction we have whenever someone resigns needs to be removed.
As long as the person is loyal, I think we should be more than happy for whatever time they spend with us in an organisation and happily let them move on to life.
Who knows, they may come back or who knows they may add value to you, be your brand ambassador.
But the bottom line is, the meaning of loyalty is very different than what it was historically.
the meaning of loyalty is very different than what it was historically
