What You Can Learn from Loyalists

Abstract

Employees naturally compare their workplace with others, past and potential, and if you are better by comparison, you can raise the emotional "barrier to exit" among your skilled workers. Monster's study of loyal workers in 2006 uncovered several factors that are important to the A-level loyalists, which an employer can use to encourage top players to stay.

One good step: turn to your longtime employees and ask why they are still with you. Those who have developed a loyalty to your organization can tell you what you're doing right.

Although most employees embrace the poised mindset, the 30 percent who describe themselves as loyalists have much to teach us about holding on to those poised workers. By understanding the attitudes of loyal workers, employers can develop strategies to retain the talent that exists within their company.