ABSTRACT
Employees are often expected to make personal sacrifices – unwanted travel and working overtime are common examples – out of a sense of organizational loyalty. An organization has the right to expect employees to promote and protect its legitimate interests in their work, but an employee similarly has a right to a private life where actions are not subject to company requirements. A radical solution to the problem of formulating obligations of organizational loyalty is to deny their existence. Loyal commitment to a particular group practically guarantees moral conflict, since the interests of the group can easily come in conflict with the interests and rights of others. Identification with a group or organization clearly requires that some goals of the individual are met by the group. Clearly if an essential feature of group identification is not met, the obligations of loyalty that follow from identification with the group will not apply to that individual.
