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- Title
The Impact of Participant Characteristics, Perceived Motives, and Job Behaviors on Co-Workers' Evaluations of Workplace Romances.
- Authors
Brown, Theresa J.; Allgeier, Elizabeth Rice
- Abstract
Using a policy capturing approach, we examined the importance that observers placed on 7 different factors when evaluating workplace romances. Nearly half the explained variation in observers' evaluations of workplace romances was accounted for by participants' marital status. Participants' organizational status relative to one another was also important in explaining the variation. A series of nomothetic analyses indicated that workplace romance participants' marital status, academic status, motive for entry into the relationship, and job performance affected observers' evaluations of these relationships. Observers' level of prior involvement in a workplace romance was also significantly related to a number of variables. Results suggest that when evaluating workplace romances, observers place the greatest importance on the personal characteristics of participants. Ramifications for policy formation are discussed.
- Subjects
WORK environment; WORKPLACE romance; OBSERVABILITY (Control theory); INDUSTRIAL sociology; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology
- Publication
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1996, Vol 26, Issue 7, p577
- ISSN
0021-9029
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb02732.x