Developing, Maintaining and Disengaging from Workplace Friendships

Patricia M. Sias and Erin Gallagher

Chapter 5 in Friends and Enemies in Organizations, 2009, pp 78-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An ‘organizational chart’ is a document that illustrates the formal reporting lines among different employees and units in an organization. The chart’s lines represent formal relationships that typically bear little resemblance to how the organization actually functions. Instead, organizing occurs primarily in the context of informal relationships that are invisible in the organizational chart, but exist in the chart’s ‘white spaces’ (Eisenberg & Goodall, 2004). Among the most ubiquitous and powerful of these informal relationships are workplace friendships.

Keywords: Relationship Partner; Task Interdependence; Personalistic Focus; Personal Topic; Minority Employee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248359_5

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