Organizational Behaviour: Perception And Meaning Of Smoking Habits In Everyday Routines At Workplace

The aim of this research is to consider the effects of cigarette break during work day on socialization and interaction at work place, between smoker employees, but also among non-smokers employees and smoker employees. Another purpose is to reveal how this habit impacts on socialization and professional performance among employees. This topic is related also with work stress and the perception of workers that smoking reduces stress at workplace. The research was conduct using quantitative and qualitative methods, survey and semi-structured interviews, on private sector employees. The main results reveal that many of employees that participated in the research claim that cigarette consumption helps them deliver higher returns at the workplace. As a result of our research, we have concluded that employees attach greater importance to the workplace cigarette, which helps them achieve better communication with colleagues / partners, most of them claiming that they can communicate better with their coleges during cigarette break and at the same time this habit helps them relax after their work in the organization. Moreover, most of them are satisfied with respecting work and break schedule at their job.