CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. Friendships in the workplace can have a positive impact but can also have negative consequences. Which are among those challenges?

a. People are taken away from the work they should be doing, spending more time talking about their personal lives.
b. There is an expectation for friends to do favors for one another that might require a person to violate organizational rules.
c. The instrumental goals could dominate the relational goals.
d. Friends do not always get along, which could disrupt the work of others in the organization.


a. People are taken away from the work they should be doing, spending more time talking about their personal lives, b. There is an expectation for friends to do favors for one another that might require a person to violate organizational rules and d. Friends do not always get along, which could disrupt the work of others in the organization.

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