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employee feels within it. An employee's inertia is strengthened or weakened by the degree of compatibility between his own work ethic and the values for which the company stands. The employee's ethic derives from his own values and the actual conditions he encounters on the job.The company's values derive from societal norms, formal decisions by the board of directors, and the policies and procedures of the managing group. A widening gap between these two vantages weakens
inertia; a narrowing gap strengthens it.
Outside the company, one must consider an employee's perceived job opportunities in other institutions. An employee's perceptions of his outside job opportunities are influenced by real changes in the job market and by self-imposed restrictions and personal criteria. We found that some employees refuse to consider work in other locations because "I like the schools" or "I like my neighborhood." These reasons not only strengthen inertia to stay with their present
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