TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive and negative workplace relationships, social satisfaction, and organizational attachment
AU - Venkataramani, Vijaya
AU - Labianca, Giuseppe Joe
AU - Grosser, Travis
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We examine how employees' centrality in the networks of positively valenced ties (e.g., friendship, advice) and negatively valenced ties (e.g., avoidance) at work interact to affect these employees' organizational attachment. Using 2 different samples (154 employees in a division of a food and animal science organization and 144 employees in a product development firm), we found that employees' centrality in positive and negative tie networks at work were related to their organizational attachment indirectly via their impact on employees' satisfaction with their workplace relationships. Further, interaction results in both studies suggest that the effect of employees' centrality in positive tie networks on their satisfaction with workplace social relationships was stronger when employees had more negative relationships but was irrelevant when employees had fewer negative ties. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
AB - We examine how employees' centrality in the networks of positively valenced ties (e.g., friendship, advice) and negatively valenced ties (e.g., avoidance) at work interact to affect these employees' organizational attachment. Using 2 different samples (154 employees in a division of a food and animal science organization and 144 employees in a product development firm), we found that employees' centrality in positive and negative tie networks at work were related to their organizational attachment indirectly via their impact on employees' satisfaction with their workplace relationships. Further, interaction results in both studies suggest that the effect of employees' centrality in positive tie networks on their satisfaction with workplace social relationships was stronger when employees had more negative relationships but was irrelevant when employees had fewer negative ties. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
KW - Negative relationships
KW - Network centrality
KW - Organizational attachment
KW - Work attitudes
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U2 - 10.1037/a0034090
DO - 10.1037/a0034090
M3 - Article
C2 - 23915428
AN - SCOPUS:84887980790
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 98
SP - 1028
EP - 1039
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 6
ER -