TY - JOUR
T1 - Struck by a cupid's arrow
T2 - The conjuring bliss and sinister shades of employee workplace romance
AU - Anand, Amitabh
AU - Doll, Jessica L.
AU - Centobelli, Piera
AU - Singh, Sanjay Kumar
AU - Cerchione, Roberto
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the Ms. Kristina Buhagiar from The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta, from Msida, Malta for giving the authors critical ideas and suggestion in writing and the original draft. The authors also wish to thank the editor in chief, the associate editor and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions in making our article publishable. The authors also wish to highlight that an earlier version of this paper was accepted as abridged version at the 82nd Annual Academy of Management Conference. The authors wish to report that they received no funding. The corresponding author may be contacted for data.
Copyright:
© 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Workplace romance (WR), a terminology used to describe romantic relations between individuals in an organization, represents a phenomenon that has attracted academic attention for decades. However, despite its lure, the sensitive nature of WR has resulted in a limited quantity of empirical investigations, fragmented literary results, and an elusive understanding of how organizations should approach workplace romances. This study performs a systematic assessment of the WR research and uses an integrated approach to identify the antecedents, outcomes, and gaps in the literature to address in future WR research. Based on this conceptual backdrop, a CUPID (considerate, uncharacteristic, pragmatic, informed, and diligence) framework is proposed that may provide guidance for human resource managers grappling with WR.
AB - Workplace romance (WR), a terminology used to describe romantic relations between individuals in an organization, represents a phenomenon that has attracted academic attention for decades. However, despite its lure, the sensitive nature of WR has resulted in a limited quantity of empirical investigations, fragmented literary results, and an elusive understanding of how organizations should approach workplace romances. This study performs a systematic assessment of the WR research and uses an integrated approach to identify the antecedents, outcomes, and gaps in the literature to address in future WR research. Based on this conceptual backdrop, a CUPID (considerate, uncharacteristic, pragmatic, informed, and diligence) framework is proposed that may provide guidance for human resource managers grappling with WR.
KW - Corporate romance
KW - Human resource policy
KW - Office romance: employee romance
KW - Organizational romance
KW - Workplace intimacy
KW - Workplace love
KW - Workplace romance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138189086&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113304
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113304
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138189086
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 154
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
M1 - 113304
ER -