Jealously guarding what they call their "black box" will make it hard to foster loyalty and continuity in their Chinese factories.
Associations representing regions, states or towns could do as much as universities currently do to foster loyalty and a feeling of identity, Mr. Jaitly said.
Companies encourage employees to hold company stock in retirement accounts to foster loyalty and keep large amounts of stock in friendly hands.
Whereas the incentives during the partnership era fostered loyalty to the firm, the new incentives turned everyone into a greedy free agent like, say, Alex Rodriguez.
Indeed, they foster loyalty, and thereby encourage firms to invest in training graduates without fear of them being poached by rivals, argues Yoshito Hori, the founder of GLOBIS, a business school.
This eases the burden of redundancy and gives a "caring" signal to the employees who remain.Once upon a time in JapanNot long ago, western firms would have turned to Japan for advice about how to foster loyalty.
In an industry where people have been trained to measure their contribution, and, to a large degree, their self-worth, by the size of their bonus checks, managers now must try to foster loyalty amid sacrifice.
Mr. Bush, famous for being a "gut player," writes that in assessing candidates for administration jobs, he looked at "character and personality" in an effort to create a culture that "fostered loyalty — not to me, but to the country and our ideals".
