Select the statement that, ethically speaking, best represents a valid concept of what loyalty to a firm means.

A Loyalty means a willingness to sacrifice one's own interest by going above and beyond ordinary employee responsibilities.

B Loyal employees are expected to sacrifice for the firm even though the firm is not necessarily bound to sacrifice for the employee.

C Since the model of agency law lays a legal duty of loyalty on employers, employees have a corresponding ethical responsibility to be loyal.

D

While a willingness to sacrifice might be a part of loyalty, it would seem that devotion and faithfulness to a common good is both more essential to loyalty and what explains the willingness to sacrifice.