RT Article
T1 Workplace Romance 2.0: Developing a Communication Ethics Model to Address Potential Sexual Harassment from Inappropriate Social Media Contacts Between Coworkers
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 114
IS 2
SP 367
OP 379
A1 Mainiero, Lisa A.
A1 Jones, Kevin J.
A2 Jones, Kevin J.
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/178564758X
AB This article examines ethical implications from workplace romances that may subsequently turn into sexual harassment through the use of social media technologies, such as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, text messaging, IMing, and other forms of digital communication between office colleagues. We examine common ethical models such as Jones (Acad Manag Rev 16:366–395, 1991) issue-contingent decision-making model, Rest’s (Moral development: Advances in research and theory, 1986) Stages of Ethical Decision-Making model, and Pierce and Aguinis’s (J Org Behav 26(6):727–732,2005) review of workplace romance versus sexual harassment issues. The article makes a contribution by developing a new communication ethics model that includes response positive and response negative contingencies to guide decision-making about inappropriate social media contacts that spillover into the workplace. In addition, we recommend that human resource personnel take a more active role in communicating appropriate ethical rules of conduct concerning the use of social media technologies inside and outside the office.
K1 workplace romance
K1 Tumblr
K1 Twitter
K1 Social media technologies
K1 Sexual Harassment
K1 office romance
K1 LinkedIn
K1 Human resource guidelines
K1 Human resource codes of conduct
K1 Facebook
K1 Communication ethics
K1 Business Ethics
DO 10.1007/s10551-012-1349-8