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Developing, Maintaining and Disengaging from Workplace Friendships

In: Friends and Enemies in Organizations

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  • Patricia M. Sias
  • Erin Gallagher

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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.

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  • Patricia M. Sias & Erin Gallagher, 2009. "Developing, Maintaining and Disengaging from Workplace Friendships," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rachel L. Morrison & Sarah L. Wright (ed.), Friends and Enemies in Organizations, chapter 5, pages 78-100, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24835-9_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230248359_5
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