Executive Loyalty

A sample of executives were surveyed about their loyalty to their current company. One question was “If you were given an offer by another company equal to or slightly better than your current position, would you remain with your current company or take the other position?” Their responses relative to their length of service in their current position are in the table below.

  Remain Not Remain TOTAL
< 1 year 11 23 34
1-5 years 28 15 43
6-10 years 6 12 18
> 10 years 74 31 105
TOTAL 119 81 200


  1. What percent of executives with 1-5 years of service would remain in their current position?
  2. What percent of executives with more than 10 years of service would not remain in their current position?
  3. What percent of executives who would remain in their current position had less than 1 year of service?
  4. What percent of all executives had 6-10 years of service and would not remain in their current position?
  5. What percent of all executives would remain in their current position?
  6. What can you say about the effect (if any) of years of service on whether or not the executive would remain in their current position?