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Relationships at work – why do they matter so much?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McKeown, Tui Ayoko, Oluremi Bolanle |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | Our second issue of JMO for 2020 takes a deep dive into the workplace to explore how and why our relationships at work can matter so much. Often it is the people who make or break a job for us getting on with those we work with impacts on our happiness in not just work but in our wider life as well as on our physical and mental health. While building meaningful relationships within the workplace is very important to us – we also know there is a dark side. We explore this continuum in the eight papers presented here. We begin with the ‘light side’ and a paper by Kathryn Owler and Rachel Morrison that delivers on a promise they made to us back in their 2015 publication with us to delve deeper into the notion of fun at work. In ‘I always have fun at work’: How ‘remarkable workers’ employ agency and control in order to enjoy themselves. Rather than seeing the organisation as the ‘provider’ of fun, this paper takes a delightfully novel approach and places the individual as the focus. This examination of the capacity of individual workers to regulate their own experience of fun seeks to “inspire both individual workers and organisations to adopt an agentic outlook in the workplace, implementing strategies that enhance employee control.” We hope that it does and that it begins with you! Looking at work and relationships differently is also a theme in our second paper but here authors Michael Tews, Kathryn Stafford and Philip Jolly take us into the world of tattoos. Here their research looks at ‘An unintended consequence? Examining the relationship between visible tattoos and unwanted sexual attention’ to question whether the increasing popularity of tattoos may be creating an unintended and adverse impact on employees. Focusing on sexual harassment in the restaurant and retail industries, employees, the results are disturbing and certainly provide an interesting iteration of the individual versus organisational roles noted in our first paper The tension between individual responsibility and the organisation is made explicit in our third paper. Here authors Qingguo Zhai, Saifang Wang and Helen Weadon look at ‘Thriving at work as a mediator of the relationship between workplace support and life satisfaction’. They find clear evidence of the value of workplace support positively affecting thriving at work and that thriving at work is then positively related to life satisfaction. What is interesting in the study is the role that supervisor support and co-worker support play in thriving at work. This takes us to a deeper perspective into the relationships of work and offers a more nuanced view as to how both individuals (as employees, supervisors and co-workers), and organizations play a role in improving individuals’ thriving at work and their life satisfaction. Our next paper takes us into a deeper and more focused view. Yin-Mei Huang’s examination of ‘The relationship between networking behavior and promotability: The moderating effect of political skill’ provides us with insight into how individuals use of networking at both the career and community levels lead to supervisory promotability evaluations. The study draws in the notion of political skill and not surprisingly, the results provide for interesting implications! While the notion of political skill may have both positive and negative connotations, our next paper moves us explicitly to the ‘dark side’. Cheng-Chen Lin and Fong-Yi Lai’s paper is titled ‘The mechanism and boundary conditions of the relationship between customer incivility and service |
| Starting Page | 133 |
| Ending Page | 134 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/jmo.2020.3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6B212C0C3A113862A20C7654A55467C5/S1833367220000036a.pdf/div-class-title-relationships-at-work-why-do-they-matter-so-much-div.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2020.3 |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
