O’ Coworker, Who Art Thou? The Conundrum of Not Knowing Who Is or Is Not One’s Coworker and a Preliminary Definition
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Kiewitz, Christian, Zagenczyk, Thomas J., Shoss, Mindy and Cruz, Kevin S.. (2023). O’ Coworker, Who Art Thou? The Conundrum of Not Knowing Who Is or Is Not One’s Coworker and a Preliminary Definition. Group and Organization Management. pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011231207733
Authors | Kiewitz, Christian, Zagenczyk, Thomas J., Shoss, Mindy and Cruz, Kevin S. |
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Abstract | The management field does not possess a clear definition of what makes someone a coworker. What? Yes, you read that correctly, my dear “research mate,” “peer author,” and “some colleague you are.” Several years ago, a coworking author of this GOMusing looked for an agreed-upon, validated coworker definition in the organizational sciences while cowriting a piece on coworkers behaving badly (Robinson et al., 2014). To everyone’s surprise, none was to be found. Laboring under time pressure back then, we did not pursue the matter. Yet, we kept wondering who those mystical creatures called our coworkers really are and where they dwell. |
Keywords | coworkers; definition; network ties; workflow; interdependency; social networks; coworker support; supervisor support |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Group and Organization Management |
Journal citation | pp. 1-11 |
Publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. (US) |
ISSN | 1552-3993 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011231207733 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10596011231207733 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-11 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Oct 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Sep 2023 |
Deposited | 13 Nov 2024 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2023. |
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Place of publication | United States |
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