There is no only correct answer to this question. There are such people who believe that friendship at work is interfering. There are those who think the other way around. The organizations are also different. There are those where friendship between colleagues is not welcome, leaders believe that all forces should be spent solely on the performance of their official duties. And there are organizations in which friendship is encouraged, leaders are in solidarity with the opinion that an effective method of solving the problem in the friendly team will be able to find better.
There is another type of leaders who, in principle, do not care whether their subordinates are friends or not. But this is more common in large groups. A person is a social being, and rarely can protect himself from the processes that occur between employees. On my own observations, I will say that in small groups, leaders most often do not maintain friendly relations between subordinates. And friendship within the team serves as a restraining factor in the manifestation of authoritarianism of the leader.
Be that as it may, the leader wants to always have a loyal location of his employees. With any negative or positive interaction of the authorities and subordinate, this fact in a friendly team receives a resonance. With a controversial moment, this makes the boss solve the situation in favor of the employee.
Another thing is friendship with the boss. In general, the boss is a lonely shark. Friends with superiors is contraindicated. It will be reasonable to try to make friendship not interferes with official relations. From the outside it also looks awkward when people are friends, but at the same time they give no friendly orders and orders at all. A few people can combine such a relationship.
Friendship between the authorities and the subordinates is fraught with a complication of either working relations and discipline, or friendship is self -destructive. It is difficult to delimit and understand where the order is, and where is a friendly request. Believe me, your employees will be grateful to you if you follow the distance between you. It will be easier for them.
The choice of one or another version of the relationship in the team depends on the priorities of the employee. If the salary is worthy, then the employee will agree to fulfill his service without problems, and he will not need bonuses in the form of joint tea with colleagues. If the salary is small ..
Looking at your new working environment and listening to spiritual conversations during the windows over a cup of tea, I understand that these people at work are kept by the relationship that they were able to build. Everything, I finished loading, let me leave.
