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Understanding Workplace Relationships

An Examination of the Antecedents and Outcomes

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  • Examines the outcomes of workplace relationships
  • Provides theoretical and practical insights from the latest research between social networks and workplace relationship
  • Presents how workplace relationships are formed and their implications

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. The Effect of Network Relationships on Individual Performance in Organizations

  2. The Effect of Network Relationships on Individual Attitudes and Behaviors

  3. Knowledge Relationships in Organizations

  4. Friendship and Trust in Organizations

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About this book

Workplace relationships are critical to how work gets done in organizations. While current research gives rigorous theoretical and empirical insights regarding workplace relationships, and what are often known as social networks, there are only limited details of the practical applications of workplace relations. This edited collection provides readers with cutting edge theoretical and practical insights from the latest research at the intersection of social networks and workplace relationships.

This volume has a dual focus. First, it examines the outcomes of workplace relationships, such as individual performance and how social network relationships affect attitudes and behaviours. Second, it examines how workplace relationships are formed and their implications with regard to friendship, trust and collegiality.

Drawing on innovative research on social networks, the authors examine the importance of workplace relationships across a broad selection of institutional settings. Featuring practical applied examples, this collection brings together insights from leading scholars in a practical and accessible format for academics and students.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Alexandra Gerbasi, Cécile Emery

  • University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Andrew Parker

About the editors

 Alexandra Gerbasi is Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School, UK, Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Business School. Her research focuses on the effects of positive and negative network ties within the workplace, and their effects on performance, leadership, well-being, thriving, affect, and turnover.

Cécile Emery is Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School, UK. Her research uses advanced social network techniques - exponential random graphs and longitudinal network analysis - to study relationships in the workplace and, more precisely, the relationship that leaders develop with their followers.

Andrew Parker is Professor of Leadership at Durham University Business School, UK. His research uses the lens of network theory to understand problem solving processes, knowledge transfer, turnover, performance and well-being within organizations.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Workplace Relationships

  • Book Subtitle: An Examination of the Antecedents and Outcomes

  • Editors: Alexandra Gerbasi, Cécile Emery, Andrew Parker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16640-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16639-6Published: 21 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16642-6Published: 22 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16640-2Published: 20 February 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 438

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Organization

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