Social relationships at work and depression

Energizing Social Interactions at Work: An Exploration of Relationships that Generate Employee and Organizational Thriving

A company’s greatest asset is its people provided they are fully engaged. In our increasingly service-based economies, social relationships and swift coordination among employees are the means by which a lot of work gets done. Thus, whether organizations and their employees flourish or languish largely depends on the quality of the social connections they nurture. The quality of the workplace c...

Crafting Social Issues at Work

I present and test a model of issue crafting, in which individuals shape the meaning of social issues by intentionally using language in public that portrays those issues in ways that differ from the individuals’ private understandings of the issues. Using statements collected with an experimental design, I found that the public language individuals used was more economic and less normative tha...

Work Life and Social Fulfillment: Does Social Affiliation at Work Reflect a Carrot or a Stick?

Objectives. Work life and home life appear to be in increasing competition for scarce time and attention. Does the workplace offer a social haven for people? And if so, for whom is it most attractive? Or does the increasing affiliation with work life result from heightened job insecurity, which demands that employees focus on work in order to keep their jobs? Methods. In this article we analyze...

Social Interaction at Work: Common Stock Investments∗

Stock market investment decisions of individual investors are positively correlated with stock market investment decisions of their co-workers. This holds even after accounting for plant, zip code, and stock fixed effects. Sorting of unobservably similar individuals to the same workplaces is unlikely to explain our results, as evidenced by the investment behavior of individuals that move betwee...

Moving Forward: Positive Relationships at Work as a Research Frontier