Kontextuella faktorer är avgörande för arbetstagarens lojalitet : En kvantitativ studie om vad det är som gör att vissa är mer lojala än andra.

Sammanfattning: This essay contributes to research in the field of working life. This study examines employee loyalty in the workplace. Our main focus is to examine this phenomenon in relation to different relevant variables and how these co-vary. The purpose of this study is to reveal what makes employees loyal and what doesn't. The study uses Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework (Broady 1998). This theory has initially provided a good and relatable starting point, however based on empirical findings there have been parts to question regarding certain theoretical ideas and a doubt is mainly raised about the gaps that are missing when the theory is related to a modern Sweden and not to a past France. Raewyn Connell's (2015) sociological thoughts on gender research also became a theoretical starting point. The use of the two-gender model was a central part of the analysis where together with our empirical work, we finally came to an objection as we found no evidence for the hypothesis that an employee's loyalty and its gender correlate with each other. This study has investigated what makes an employee loyal to their organization by answering the following questions: What does the relationship between the employee's loyalty and one's gender look like? What does the relationship between employee loyalty and one's class affiliation look like? What is the relationship between employee loyalty and one's age? How do gender, class, and age covary with one's loyalty, controlled for one's job satisfaction? The investigation of these questions has been done through bivariate and multivariate analyses on an already existing data set. The result showed that, controlled for other variables, gender, class or age does not constitute any variance in one's loyalty. What the conclusion showed was a clear relationship where employee loyalty is created by one's job satisfaction, organizational culture, stress level and one's work experience.