Employee Loyalty Effecting Employee Loyalty as CEO

Employee Loyalty

Effecting Employee Loyalty

As CEO of a company I would expect employee loyalty and promote it by ensuring that 1) we are all on the same page -- and that 2) it was a page everyone wanted to be on. Chet Holmes reminds his readers that "building rapport" is one of the most crucial elements of doing business with anyone, whether clients or employees (Holmes 60). A CEO should see himself less as an authoritative tyrant and more as a father who cares for his children, his employees. To ensure that "rapport" is built and that everyone is on the same page, I would follow Holmes' advice once more by holding weekly scheduled meetings with individual teams. This paper will discuss why rapport is crucial and why meetings help establish it.

Happy employees are those who love their job. They feel as though their own personal goals are being met by going to work and doing the best they can do there. A loyal employee is one who wants to work and wants to work for you. Therefore, as CEO, it is important to recognize what I can do for my employee to help him to want to work for me. Christ put it best to His Apostles: serve the servant. A CEO can do worse than following the advice of the Son of God. A CEO should think about the perks of "serving" his employees.

Serving one's employees means putting yourself at their service. This may seem like a radical idea, because typically one thinks of the employee as serving the corporation. But if it worked for the Son of God, it should work for a CEO. There are several ways a CEO can be of service to his employees.

The first way is to recognize that a good employee is one who wants to do a good job. A loyal employee is worthless if he or she has no incentive to be a good employee. What a CEO wants in his employees is goodness and loyalty. Both of these can be had by providing for the employee. Make it possible for him to be successful and to want to be successful. Give him the means, educate him on the best way to do his job, present him with incentives, encouragement, and appreciation -- in other words, make that employee see that he comes first before everything else, and you'll have an employee (a good one, that is) for life.