Break or make: results of being in a past romantic relationship with a co-worker to workplace behavior of employees in selected organizations in Metro Manila

Abstract

Relationships are and have long been a major foundation of any organization. Building and maintaining relationships have extensive impacts to workplace behavior and job performance of employees. Substantial proportions of previous researches present that job productivity can be immensely affected by relationships in the workplace-romantic relationships, to be precise. Building and maintaining a romantic relationship have considerable values in an organization, and ending it has another. By its very nature, the purpose of this study is to identify the effects of being in a past romantic relationship with a coworker to workplace behavior of employees in selected organizations in UP Manila. A 9-item interview schedule was designed to determine whether or not the communication and behavioral patterns of former couples in the same working environment affect their workplace behavior and job productivity. Interviews with 10 employees (5 pairs of former couples) were conducted to gather sufficient and qualitative data for this study. Using a conceptualized version of various models from Behavioral Patterns of Mechanisms and Relational Dialectics, results show an evident correlation between personal behavior and communication to workplace behavior and productivity of employees from past romantic relationships. Thus, proving that being in a past romantic relationship with a co-worker has results to workplace behavior of employees.