The Office Workplace Quiz

Family/Life

Focus on mental health, flexibility and balance

Quiet Quitting

Those who do the bare minimum in the workplace

Status

Standard hierarchy equality and inequality of power

Intimacy

Professional work concerns or more personal

Choice

Who we willingly engage with

Workplace values

Beliefs of work performance

Workplace Norms

Guidelines for appropriate communication

Workplace Artifacts

Objects, structures, and dress codes

Cyber Slacking

Spending time using the internet in the website for reasons that aren’t related to one’s job

Nature of Information

Type of information that flows (Rumors)

Modality/Sensory Channels

Face to Face

Network Density

How connected each member is

Defensive Climate

Unfriendly, rigid, unsupportive

Supportive Climate

Warm, Open, Supportive

Virtual Network

Only Online

Professional Peers

People with status and power similar to us

Information Peers

Work Related Content

Collegial Peers

Friends, Personal

Special peers

Best friends

Virtual peers

Communicating virtually

Workplace Romances

Gossip, women can suffer more negative consequences

33% of US workers have been involved in workplace romances

Mixed status Relationships

Different status relationships

Supervisory relationships

One person outranks the other

Upward communication

Communication from subordinates to superiors

Advocacy

Messages with your supervisors preferences

Downward Communication

Communication with subordinates

Workplace bullying

Unethical and unfavorable bullying of others

Quid Pro Quo

Supervisor wants sexual favors

Hostile work environment

Sexual conduct or gender based hostility

Non Assertive

Don’t speak your thoughts fail to stand up for yourself

Aggressive

Think little of others

Assertive

Act in your best interests

Strategy

Rehearsed

Spontaneity

Open

Evaluation

Blaming

Description

Objective

Detachment

Distant

Empathy

Feel with

Superiority

Unequal Power

Equality

Equal power