Adult Attachment and Workplace Romance Motives: A Path to Performance

Employees’ motives for engaging in intimate relationships with their coworkers can have a substantial impact on their performance (e.g., Dillard, 1987) and how they are perceived by others (e.g., Cole, 2009). We integrate attachment theory with theories applied in the workplace romance literature to highlight how employees’ dispositional approaches to close relationships can lead to different types of workplace romance which, in turn, have...