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loyalty

vr.tr.loyalty · XCT.QLT

Let an agent explain loyalty as a value and behaviour, relay ethical, psychological and organisational perspectives from academic sources with attribution, describe forms such as allegiance and brand loyalty, and distinguish loyalty from obedience, trust, patriotism and the leadership style listed as an alias.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain loyalty as a value and behaviour, relay ethical, psychological and organisational perspectives from academic sources with attribution, describe forms such as allegiance and brand loyalty, and distinguish loyalty from obedience, trust, patriotism and the leadership style listed as an alias.

Faithfulness or devotion to a person, group, cause or institution, expressed as allegiance to a state or leader, fidelity in relationships, brand loyalty in markets and loyalty in organisations, studied in ethics as a virtue with limits, in psychology and management, including in transactional leadership where loyalty is exchanged for rewards; loyalty conflicts arise when duties compete.

What it is for: Not applicable; a value and behaviour.

It can be explain the concept; relay perspectives; describe forms; distinguish related concepts.

Distinguishing features

Steadfast attachment

Virtue with limits

Many objects of loyalty

Conflicts of loyalty

What it looks like

Not a visible object; steadfast attachment.

Physical character

Royce s The Philosophy of Loyalty: 1908 year

Hirschman s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: 1970 year

How it is recognised

Faithful devotion to a person, group or cause

Allegiance, faithfulness, brand loyalty, organisational loyalty; transactional leadership as a related alias

Obedience follows orders; trust is expectation; patriotism is loyalty to country; transactional leadership is a management style

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

constancy

is a kind of - in registry terms

behavior

is contrasted with - which follows orders

obedience

is exemplified by - as loyalty to a state

allegiance

In practice

Families and kinds

personal loyalty and fidelity

allegiance to state and leaders

organisational and employee loyalty

brand and customer loyalty

loyalty in ethics and philosophy

loyalty in leadership theory including transactional leadership

Standards and regulation

Oaths of allegiance in citizenship and office

Employment law on duty of loyalty and whistleblowing

Consumer rules for loyalty programmes

Failure modes and hazards

Loyalty overriding ethics

Confusing loyalty with obedience

Registry alias transactional leadership is a distinct concept

Also called

faithfulnesstransactional leadershipallegiance

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.loyalty

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What loyalty is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is loyalty, and how does it differ from obedience, trust, patriotism and transactional leadership? definition
  2. Is the question about the concept, a form, ethics or management? boundary

Forms

Forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are personal, national, organisational and brand loyalty? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
Ethics Ethics and philosophy.

Attribution.

Virtue

Loyalty as a virtue.

Virtue

Virtue.

  1. How do Royce, Fletcher and others treat loyalty as a virtue and its limits, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Conflicts

Conflicts of loyalty.

Conflicts

Conflicts.

  1. How are conflicts between loyalties and with ethics, such as whistleblowing, analysed? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Practice Organisations and markets.

Sources.

Organisations

Organisational loyalty.

Organisations

Organisations.

  1. How do Hirschman s exit, voice and loyalty and leadership theories including transactional leadership treat loyalty? provenance
  2. Which entry fits transactional leadership? action

Markets

Brand loyalty.

Markets

Markets.

  1. How do marketing and loyalty programmes cultivate customer loyalty? provenance
  2. Which entry fits loyalty program? action
Context Politics and culture.

Context.

Allegiance

Allegiance.

Allegiance

Allegiance.

  1. How do oaths of allegiance and loyalty to states and leaders work, with debates attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Culture

Culture.

Culture

Culture.

  1. How is loyalty treated in literature, religion and popular culture? provenance
  2. Which entry fits loyalty in literature? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should allegiance, brand loyalty and transactional leadership be separate primary entries?
  • How should academic sources be linked?
  • The registry alias transactional leadership appears misfiled; should it be moved?