loyalty & individuals

read to prepare yourselves for session 09

  1. Rosanas, J. M., & Velilla, M. (April 01, 2003). Loyalty and trust as the ethical bases of organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 44 (1). 11th Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society Ethical Challenges in the Age of Globalization: 49-59.
  2. Wang, X., Teo, H. and Yang, X. (2010). Turnover intentions of IT employees in non-IT organizations: effects of organizational and personal identification. ACM SIGMIS CPR, Conference on Management of Information Systems Personnel.

things we'll talk about


  • why is loyalty in members a valuable commodity for organizations?
  • what kinds of things would motivate you to be loyal to an organization? what would it have to do to win your loyalty?
  • what do you think about the increase in turnover of IT professionals?
  • does the idea of working at several companies over the course of your career worry you?
  • would you prefer it to working at one company over most of your professional life?

let's read this together in class
Fall, B., 1961, Street without joy, pp. 291-294

optional readings

Bernard Fall's Street without joy slides for session 09