Important Perspectives on Workplace Relationships

Dear Colleagues,

The study of workplace behavior has long held a fascination in several different academic areas, with occasionally too little overlap between them. This has resulted in slower growth than would be achieved by the recognition of the contributions of different areas of study to the same basic phenomenon. While scholars in organizational behavior, educational research, industrial and organizational psychology, business management, management perspectives, and even nursing as well as landscape and urban planning have shown an interest in the factors that make workplace environments successful, they have often used different definitions of this dependent variable ("successful") and focused on different elements of a larger context that might contribute to their results.

Although the integration of such vast libraries of scholarship is scarcely feasible, it is at least helpful for a Special Issue such as this to bring together different perspectives on the same question so that we may learn more from each other than we do from remaining uninformed about other specialist work. Accordingly, this Special Issue welcomes a variety of perspectives that makes research on workplace relationships such a rich and fertile basis for study, with long-term valuable practical effects.  

By opening our eyes to the contributions that are being made on this topic that we may not otherwise focus upon, this Special Issue aims to both respect the contributions that are being made in each subsection of the field and yet to challenge each subsection to consider the incorporation of findings and perspectives that have been contributed by others from different vantage points. The intention is to create a scholarly handshaking of the kind that we all accept will promote healthy and profitable workplace relationships, and in this case extend those findings and perspectives to our own workplace, namely the academic environment.  

Our work is all the more constructive when we work with others and throw our collective granular achievements into a common grain store from which later scholars can draw with all the more confidence because it was not simply generated by single individual scholars plowing a narrow furrow, but because it was generated as a collective activity drawn from many different seeding and starting points.

I welcome contributions from scholars with an interest in this topic from whatever discipline or perspective they begin. The ultimate purpose of this Special Issue is to fertilize the soil of the scholarship on workplace relationships with the hope of generating new connections and collaborations between those scholars who start out in different places and yet can see the benefits of collaborative and integrative work.

Prof. Dr. Steve Duck
Guest Editor

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