In Personal Relationships: The Effect on Employee Attitudes, Behavior and Well-being, editors Lillian Turner Eby, a professor of psychology at UGA, and Tammy D. Allen, a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida, use research and theory on the need to belong to foundations to explore various types of relationships, with an emphasis on the influence of the relationships on employee attitudes, behaviors and well-being.
The book considers relationships that may affect work attitudes, specifically supervisory, co-worker, team, customer and nonwork relationships. The study of relationships spans many sub-areas within industrial/organizational psychology and social psychology, including leadership, supervision, mentoring, work-related social support, work teams, bullying/interpersonal deviance and the work/nonwork interface.