Making sense of coworker friendships : choice, constraint, and (imagined) boundaries.

• Main Author: Tan, Eileen Yi Lin.
• Other Authors: Lim Khek Gee, Francis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51665
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Workplace friendships are commonly assumed to be voluntarily chosen ties. But are these relationships purely a matter of personal choice? This study has three main concerns: it seeks to understand the different ways by which individuals negotiate and make sense of friendships with peer coworkers; it...