Addresses the importance of protection and management of employee defections. (A) case, in anticipation of the common class, describes a strong position in Ecolab institutional cleaning business. Faint hum of internal differences at the end of the case qualified for five-minute video, which emphasizes loyalty and spirit de corps, which permeate the entire company. (B) case comes as a shock as a result of (A) the case, and video. Ecolab few trusted senior leaders in appealing to their main rival, Diversey, with a proposal to switch loyalty in exchange for monetary compensation. (C) If shifts perspective Ecolab President Al Schumann, who is wondering how to respond to desertion. The proposed plan of action should be the distribution (D) case, which describes how Ecolab answered the call. Two-minute video excerpt from a field visit to Schumann emphasizes his personal response to this challenge. (E) describes the case of poaching of other competing firms and defections of key employees, and (F) case is the legal status of noncompete agreements. Abridged version earlier cases. "Hide
by Ashish Nanda Source: Harvard Business School 8 pages. Publication Date: May 23, 1996. Prod. #: 396371-PDF-ENG
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