Office Romance: Love, Power, and Sex in the Workplace - Hardcover

Mainiero, Lisa A.

9780892563418: Office Romance: Love, Power, and Sex in the Workplace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892563419 ISBN 13: 9780892563418

Publisher: Rawson Assoc, 1989

Discusses the pluses and pitfalls of love in the workplace, presenting the results of a survey of one hundred executive women that reveals the effects of romantic relationships in the office on careers and coworkers

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From Publishers Weekly:

Combining titillating gossip with practical advice, business school professor Mainiero explores the effect of office love affairs on corporate policy and practice. Claiming that the office has replaced the church, local community and family circle as chief source of romantic encounters, she surveyed 100 executive women about their experience or observation of office romance, examining also the ways that the corporate context is effected by office affairs. Recounting stories of power struggles, professional disasters, dalliance and heartbreak, she also cites beneficial impacts on careers, and romances leading to happy marriages--often depending on the marital status of the participants and their respective positions on the corporate ladder. Except in very conservative firms or if adultery is involved, she believes the benefits of office romances outweigh the risks, concluding that, in any case, sex in the workplace is here to stay.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Increasing opportunities for women in the workplace carry a consequence--that men and women will meet, marry, and fall in love on the job, contributing to a new landscape of personal relationships at work. Some of them will enhance work relationships and increase productivity, but others will bring a host of risks and disadvantages emotionally devastating to all concerned. In this first full-length book on the subject, Mainiero (management, Fairfield Univ.) examines the pros and cons of this new phenomenon. Her product is both well-written and readable, and laudably draws upon extensive case literature from other books, surveys, and journals of both business and psychology. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.
- Christy Zlatos, Auburn Univ. Libs., Ala.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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