No Employee an Island: Workplace Loneliness and Job Performance

By Hakan Ozcelik, Sigal G. Barsade. Academy of Management Journal, 2018

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This research investigates the link between workplace loneliness and job performance. Integrating the regulatory loop model of loneliness and the affect theory of social exchange, we develop a mode...

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Office Chit-Chat as a Social Ritual: The Uplifting Yet Distracting Effects of Daily Small Talk at Work (2020, background): “Our findings also tie into broader implications for workplace loneliness — employees ’ subjective affective evaluations of whether their affiliation needs are met by people they work with and the organization they work for (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018).”
Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy (2021, background): “Indeed, empirical examination of workplace factors associated with loneliness is itself scarce (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018).”
Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work (2021, background): “While it is plausible that these challenges will have an important relationship with indicators of their psycho-social well-being (Ozcelik and Barsade, 2018), the direction and nature of these relationships is unclear.”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, background): “Without sufficient resources to cope (or depletion of available resources, Hobfoll, 1989), individuals who experience loneliness can then experience impairment, in terms of distorted social cognition (Holt-Lunstad, 2018) and reduced work performance (Ozcelik and Barsade, 2018).”
Linking core self-evaluation and emotional exhaustion with workplace loneliness: does high LMX make the consequence worse? (2019, methodology): “On the contrary, the failure to fulfil the need for attachment makes individuals feel lonely (Murphy & Kupshik, 1992), which has serious consequences (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018).”
COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action. (2020, background): “Workplace loneliness has been shown to have strong negative relationships to employees’ affective commitment, affiliative behaviors, and performance (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018).”
Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective (2020, background): “However, our study shows that online social interactions are not necessarily sufficient for reducing loneliness; “a psychological pain of perceived relational deficiencies in the workplace” (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018; Wright & Silard, 2020).”