companies must understand and identify its root causes and associated behaviors. For example, in the absence of transparent leadership, rumors can spread like wildfire through an office and distract employees from their tasks. Gossip also has the potential to undermine company culture, cause hurt feel...
Based on the social information processing theory, we explained the effects of workplace gossip on work engagement of employees from the perspective of processing social information. We constructed a theoretical model between positive workplace gossip, negative workplace gossip, and work engagement, ...
Or, more insidiously, they may try to make other people look bad, by pointing out their faults, or by spreading malicious gossip. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Rivalry Workplace rivalries can have a number of positive and negative ramifications. The Upside Kilduff's research found that ...
A scenario-based experiment was employed to test seven hypotheses concerning several causes and consequences of cynicism in the workplace. The results of a 2 x 2 x 2 MANOVA revealed that high levels of executive compensation, poor organizational performance, and harsh, immediate layoffs generate cyn...
Standing by Your Organization: The Impact of Organizational Identification and Abusive Supervision on Followers' Perceived Cohesion and Tendency to Gossip Abusive supervision has been shown to have significant negative consequences for employees' well-being, attitudes, and behavior. However, despite the dev...
Linking negative workplace gossip to deviant workplace behavior: A social cognitive perspective Negative workplace gossip (NWG) is a form of verbal, indirect, and covert attack against others in an organization. Given the increased ease of engaging in... B Cheng,Z Zhang,Y Peng - 《Current Ps...
Very much like high school with gossip and “clicks” and that made for a toxic work environment and had to work because you never knew who would talk behind your back Was this review helpful? YesNo ReportShare 1.0 Job was decent, outcome was awful Production Associate (Former Employee) ...
Prior research has shown, however, that people often learn about the lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) identities of others through indirect means, such as gossip and stereotypical cues (Ambady, Hallahan, & Conner, 1999; Colgan, Creegan, McKearney, & Wright, 2007). We conduct two studies ...
My co-workers would all be friendly with one another, without ever falling into the office gossip trap. The kitchen would have endless options of pizza and cookies. Oh, and they’d give me two months of paid vacation with a very generous salary. M) What are my chances of finding all...
seems to remember that I’ve only just got home from work and need to get some decent sleep, ready for the next shift tonight. The worst is when she has a friend round she hasn’t for a few weeks and there’s lots of gossip to talk about with a lot of LOUD laughs thrown in!”...