CASE STUDY

Case Study



Case Study

What does loyalty to the company mean and how important is it, morally? Under what circumstances, if any, do employees owe loyalty to their employers? When, if ever, do they owe loyalty to their coworkers?

As far as the employee loyalty is concerned, it is the most important factor for a company, because it takes a lot of time, efforts, and cost to select, develop, and train the employee. Loyalty is to create a work environment that will maintain the commitment of long-term employees. However, beware: loyalty does not hold at all costs! Retention efforts should be directed to employees who demonstrate real interest in the company (Meyer and Allen, 1991). In fact, to be effective, a loyalty program must primarily be based on values shared by the company and employees: the pleasure, the personal and skills development are examples.

As observed in the case study that Martinez was so happy when she got the job in another company, and she was not willing to think about the mega project which was being executed under her supervision with her current employer. Not even after discussion with her husband, she was totally thinking about herself, her career, and her position, without considering that her current employer has given her experience and knowledge about the field.

The duty of loyalty is the essence of the contract, that it is executed in an unionized environment or not. This requirement highlights a concept that is inseparable from the concept of true faith. Thus, the employee's duty of loyalty behavior and adopt an attitude of honesty, integrity and discretion. The employee must endeavor to act in connection with the performance of his duties with adequate care to avoid any way cause harm to the employer by favoring its own interests. In doing so, the employee must exercise restraint, especially in his comments and cannot spread into the public disputes or problems he experiences with his employer (Aronson, 1992). In addition, although all the information about the company is not confidential, the employer may legitimately expect its employees to use discretion in view of its business.

It is now well established that all employees in the service of an employer subject to this duty of loyalty. However, this obligation remains variable according to several parameters, including the nature of the business and operations as well as the position held by the employee.

However, such a duty of loyalty is not smooth. Indeed, employees have the right to freedom of expression enshrined in the Charter of Rights and personal freedom of Quebec. It goes without saying that the duty of loyalty to which the employee is required can be difficult to reconcile with the exercise of the fundamental right to freedom of expression. Indeed, like all fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed the right to freedom of expression is not absolute or unlimited and, as such, the employment contract is an illustration safe about.

In exercising its right direction, the employer believes that its employees exercised their right to freedom ...