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Interpersonal Communication- A Mindful Approach to Relationships, 2020a

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Chapter 13<br />

<strong>Interpersonal</strong> <strong>Relationships</strong><br />

at Work<br />

Second <strong>to</strong> spending time with your family, you’ll probably end up spending more time working than<br />

anything else you do for the rest of your life (besides sleeping). Figure 13.1 shows you what the average<br />

full-time working person’s day is like.<br />

During the five-day work week, we spend more time with the people we work with than the people<br />

we live with during the five-day workweek. So, it shouldn’t be <strong>to</strong>o surprising that our workplace relationships<br />

tend <strong>to</strong> be very important <strong>to</strong> our overall quality of life. In previous chapters, we’ve looked at the<br />

importance of a range of different types of relationships. In this chapter, we’re going <strong>to</strong> explore some<br />

areas directly related <strong>to</strong> workplace interpersonal relationships, including professionalism, leader-follower<br />

relationships, workplace friendships, romantic relationships in the workplace, and problematic workplace<br />

relationships. Finally, we’ll end this chapter by discussing essential communication skills for work in the<br />

21 st Century.<br />

<strong>Interpersonal</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 444

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