Work/Life Relationships and Communication Ethics: An Exploratory Examination
DOI
10.3390/bs12040104
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
4-11-2022
Publication Title
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Volume
12
Issue
4
ISSN
2076-328X
Keywords
communication ethics, personal workplace relationships, work/life, workplace friendships, workplace romance
Abstract
Workplace relationships that transcend formal role boundaries offer benefits and challenges to organizations and relational participants. Communicative processes that form and maintain these relationships can be examined from a communication ethics perspective focused on the outcomes emerging from these relationships that define particular goods for personal and organizational life. The blended nature of these relationships makes them host to potentially competing goods tied to public and private concerns. Considering the connection of virtue approaches to communication ethics in organizational settings to the turn to positive approaches to communication and organizational theory reveals avenues for ethical reflection and action in these increasingly important relational forms.
Open Access
OA
Repository Citation
Fritz, J. M. (2022). Work/Life Relationships and Communication Ethics: An Exploratory Examination. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 12 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040104