“Don’t Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread”: Beliefs and Advice about Workplace Romance
This investigation identified contemporary beliefs about workplace romance and compared how those beliefs have changed since 1986. Different kinds of advice about workplace romance, and how that advice was related to extant beliefs, were also evaluated. A nationwide sample (<i>N</i> = 25...
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| description | This investigation identified contemporary beliefs about workplace romance and compared how those beliefs have changed since 1986. Different kinds of advice about workplace romance, and how that advice was related to extant beliefs, were also evaluated. A nationwide sample (<i>N</i> = 259) of organizational members with a variety of professional experiences responded to an anonymous online survey. Results indicated that there were three fundamental underlying beliefs about workplace romance: workplace romance is valuable, the right to demand privacy about workplace romance, and anti-workplace romance. Different types of advice—encouraging, warning, gender concern, and silence—were related to these existing beliefs. The substantial associations between beliefs and advice provide evidence for an implicit theory of workplace romance. Personal experience with such relationships was strongly related to the belief that workplace romance is valuable and the right to demand privacy about workplace romance. Additionally, personal experience was also associated with providing advice promoting workplace romance and advocating that employees should remain silent about engaging in such relationships. These results are discussed within the theoretical lens of boundary blending between the work sphere and the private sphere of social life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7a389a73ca040d984c71547f806c2762023-12-03T13:20:50ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2022-08-0112827810.3390/bs12080278“Don’t Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread”: Beliefs and Advice about Workplace RomanceBetty H. La France0Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USAThis investigation identified contemporary beliefs about workplace romance and compared how those beliefs have changed since 1986. Different kinds of advice about workplace romance, and how that advice was related to extant beliefs, were also evaluated. A nationwide sample (<i>N</i> = 259) of organizational members with a variety of professional experiences responded to an anonymous online survey. Results indicated that there were three fundamental underlying beliefs about workplace romance: workplace romance is valuable, the right to demand privacy about workplace romance, and anti-workplace romance. Different types of advice—encouraging, warning, gender concern, and silence—were related to these existing beliefs. The substantial associations between beliefs and advice provide evidence for an implicit theory of workplace romance. Personal experience with such relationships was strongly related to the belief that workplace romance is valuable and the right to demand privacy about workplace romance. Additionally, personal experience was also associated with providing advice promoting workplace romance and advocating that employees should remain silent about engaging in such relationships. These results are discussed within the theoretical lens of boundary blending between the work sphere and the private sphere of social life.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/8/278workplace romancesexual interactionssocial supportive communicationadvice |
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| title | “Don’t Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread”: Beliefs and Advice about Workplace Romance |
| title_full | “Don’t Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread”: Beliefs and Advice about Workplace Romance |
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| title_short | “Don’t Get Your Meat Where You Get Your Bread”: Beliefs and Advice about Workplace Romance |
| title_sort | don t get your meat where you get your bread beliefs and advice about workplace romance |
| topic | workplace romance sexual interactions social supportive communication advice |
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