| Autor: |
Seok-Hwi Song, Olshfski, Dorothy |
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Administration & Society; Apr2008, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p147-169, 23p, 3 Diagrams, 12 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
Managers and scholars have always been ambivalent about the value of friendships among employees to the organization, although anyone who has worked in an office setting knows that working in a friendly place is much more preferable than the alternative. The major focus on office friendship has been on the negative side: Friendship can be related to nepotism; favoritism; gossip; displacement of loyalty; and negative, time-consuming organizational politics. This article offers a more balanced assessment of friendship. The authors examine the opportunity to form friendships and the strength of friendship between employees and their manager and their relationship to a positive work attitude. While examining two countries (South Korea and the United States), the authors find that although the opportunity to form friend- ships and the strength of that relationship vary by country, friendships between superior and subordinate can positively affect work attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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