Photocopiers and Water-coolers: The Affordances of Informal Interaction

By Anne-Laure Fayard, John Weeks. 2007

405 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Bin Wang
2. Yukun Liu
3. Jing Qian
4. Jessica R. Methot
5. Emily H. Rosado-Solomon
6. Péter Nagy
7. Diane M. Strong
8. Sharon K. Parker

In Social Psychology

1. Bin Wang
2. Yukun Liu
3. Jing Qian
4. John Trudel
5. Jessica R. Methot
6. Isa Bar-On
7. Emily H. Rosado-Solomon
8. Péter Nagy

Citations in the corpus

• Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “Technologies are not just bundles of features, and affordances are not about physical or digital objects (Fayard & Weeks, 2007).”
• A Theory of Organization-EHR Affordance Actualization (2014, background): “Most actions taken by individuals in organizations are either performed jointly with others or are influenced by others’ actions (Bloomfield et al., 2010; Fayard & Weeks, 2007), and are taken to achieve both individual and organizational goals.”
• Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective (2020, background): “In the work place, informal interactions can simply “happen”; the so-called “water cooler” effect (Fayard & Weeks, 2007).”
• Office Chit-Chat as a Social Ritual: The Uplifting Yet Distracting Effects of Daily Small Talk at Work (2020, background): “Because small talk often occurs in common areas at work (Fayard & Weeks, 2007), such spaces are crucial for promoting thepositiveeffectsderived fromsmalltalk.”