Adult Attachment And Workplace Romance Motives: An Examination Of The Association Between Romantic Relationship Dynamics And Employee Work Outcomes

The present research examined the predictive relationships between employees’ attachment style, motives for engaging in workplace romances, and five individual-level work outcomes: job performance, job satisfaction, intrinsic job motivation, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. An Amazon Mechanical Turk survey was used to obtain self-report responses to measures of each predictor and outcome. All participants were employed and involved in a romantic relationship at their organization. Results hold implications regarding the need for managers and employees to maintain an awareness of their relationship-oriented goals and behaviors, the utility of fraternization policies, and potential consequences of different types of workplace romances.