Peer co-worker relationships and its consequences in the organization

Pages: 1759-1762
Shivani Mishra and Deepti Mishra (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

Peer Co-worker relationships at the workplace are an important part of every organization. Peer co-worker can be considered as an important dynamic in the organization that influences the efficiency of employees. The objective of this paper is to present an outline of researches that have been done in this area. This paper also attempts to analyze the unfilled gaps that have not been explored by previous researches in this area. On the bases of findings of literature review, it can be concluded that consequences of peer co-worker relationships in the organization can be categorized into two categories. First category is individual consequences such as an employee’s satisfaction, employee’s commitment, employee’s engagement, employee’s adjustment. Second are organizational consequences such as organizational performances, organizational turnover, and organizational citizenship behavior. These consequences can be influenced by nature of peer co-worker relationships, as well as nature of organization.