PurposeThe purpose of the present study is twofold. First, we examined the relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance and tested the role of affective commitment foci – namely, affective coworker commitment, affective supervisor commitment, and affective organizational commitment – as parallel mediators in the relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance. Second, we tested the moderating role of culture on the interrelationships between workplace romance, affective commitment foci, and employee job performance.MethodsA two-wave (3-month interval) survey data were collected from 312 paramedics – 162 and 150 from Pakistani and Chinese public-sector hospitals, respectively. The first and second waves of data collection took place in January and May 2017, respectively. Structural equation modeling (SEM), bootstrapping technique, and multigroup analysis were used to test the interrelationships between workplace romance, affective commitment foci, and employee job performance and to examine the cross-cultural differences in these interrelations.ResultsResults obtained using SEM show that workplace romance positively influences employee performance. Importantly, the study revealed that the three foci of affective commitment – namely, coworker affective commitment, supervisor affective commitment, and organizational affective commitment – as parallel mediators fully mediate the relationship between workplace romance and employee performance. Moreover, national culture moderates the indirect relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance, where workplace romance is stronger for the Chinese data sample.ConclusionIt is concluded that workplace romance is positively related to employee job performance and that affective commitment foci fully mediate the positive relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance. Moreover, culture moderates the indirect relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance. The study contributes to theory and practice by studying an essential but largely ignored aspect of the workplace and portraying it as a constructive influence on employee job performance and their affective commitment to coworkers, supervisor, and organization.

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A rotating spinning disk configuration is adopted. Laminar, compressible flow is initiated due to periodically oscillating disk. The fluid features include thermal conductivity, density and viscosity are depending only on temperature. The features of uniform injection and suction are also comprised in convective flow. The mathematical model is reframed through preferable new variables. Numerical results are attained by first executing the approach of finite differences on normalized system of partial differential mathematical expressions and then implemented Successive over Relaxation (SOR) procedure. Three-dimensional view of oscillatory flow phenomenon is demonstrated through graphs. Three-dimensional vision of heat transport rate and shear stresses is also established in graphical format. Oscillatory behavior of heat transport rate and shear stresses along time is noticed whereas the mean positions of wave solutions are enhanced linearly in upward directions with increased values of