Emerging Outlooks on Relationships in the Workplace

Dear Colleagues,

Emerging from a successful Special Issue on the study of workplace behavior was the congruence of novel approaches from several different academic areas regarding the centrality of harmonious workplace relationships in a variety of aspects of life. Also developing is a clearer understanding of what makes such relationships hostile, painful, demeaning and punishing, whether during COVID-19 or as a result of the changes associated with new conceptions of the workplace in the modern world. Accordingly, this second Special Issue welcomes the variety of perspectives that makes research on workplace relationships such a rich and fertile basis for study, with long-term valuable practical effects.  

By emphasisingthe contributions being made on this topic that we may not otherwise focus upon, this Special Issue aims both to respect the contributions that are being made in each subsection of the field and challenge each subsection to consider the findings and perspectives that have been contributed by others from different vantage points. The intention is to create a scholarly platform that enables us to understand workplaces that promote healthy and profitable relationships and avoid the negative effects of imminent changes to the nature of the workplace.

The first Special Issue confirmed that acacdemic work is all the more constructive when we collaborate with others and throw our collective granular achievements into a common grain store from which later scholars can draw. This creates more confidence as the overall picture is not simply generated by single individual scholars, but as a collective activity drawn from many different starting points and methodologies.

I welcome contributions from scholars with an interest in this topic from whichever discipline or perspective they begin. The ultimate purpose of this Special Issue is to generate and enliven scholarship regarding workplace relationships with the hope of generating new connections and collaborations between scholars who can see the benefits of collaborative and integrative work.

Prof. Dr. Steve Duck
Guest Editor

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• workplace relationships
• success at work
• workplace stress
• working and COVID-19
• workplace disrespect
• workplace bullying
• workplace productivity
• working from home
• organizational communication
• supervisor–subordinate, peer, friendship, and romantic workplace relationships
• workplace geography
• working from home
• communication competency
• job insecurity
• military transition to civilian workplace