loyalty

n: a quality much esteemed by kings in their subjects, prime ministers in their cabinets, generals in their troops, professors in their faculties, employers in their employees, political parties in their members, managers in their subordinates, criminals in their accomplices and owners in their dogs. Like obedience, to which it is closely related, loyalty is often praised as a virtue, which it is not, and given preference and preferment over integrity, which is.