Workplace gossip: An integrative review of its antecedents, functions, and consequences

T Sun, P Schilpzand, Y Liu - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The workplace gossip construct is currently divergently interpreted by organizational
scholars, with perceptions of its origins, functions, and impacts varying widely. In this …

An integrative definition and framework to study gossip

TD Dores Cruz, AS Nieper, M Testori… - Group & …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The omnipresence of workplace gossip makes understanding gossip processes imperative
to understand social life in organizations. Although gossip research has recently increased …

Are gossipers looked down upon? A norm-based perspective on the relation between gossip and gossiper status.

H Lian, JK Li, J Pan, C Du, Q Zhao - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
While some scholars regard workplace gossip as norm-violating behavior that costs
gossipers status, others suggest that gossip clarifies organizational norms and thereby …

The bright and dark side of gossip for cooperation in groups

TD Dores Cruz, B Beersma, MTM Dijkstra… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Recent experimental studies seem to concur that gossip is good for groups by showing that
gossip stems from prosocial motives to protect group members from non-cooperators. Thus …

Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences

M Testori, TD Dores Cruz… - Social and Personality …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sharing negative gossip has been found to be pivotal for fostering cooperation in social
groups. The positive function gossip serves for groups suggests that gossipers should be …

Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip

H Imada, N Mifune, H Zibell - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Gossip, the exchange of information about absent others, is ingrained in the system of
indirect reciprocity, in which participating members selectively interact and cooperate with …

Dealing with negative workplace gossip: From the perspective of face

B Zong, S Xu, L Zhang, J Qu - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
In this study, we investigate the co** response of individuals who are being gossiped
about. Drawing on face research and affective events theory, we propose that employees …

The gossiper's high and low: Investigating the impact of negative gossip about the supervisor on work engagement

R Zhong, PM Tang, SH Lee - Personnel Psychology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although negative gossip is ubiquitous in the workplace, we know little about how negatively
gossi** about the supervisor—who occupies a higher hierarchical position in the …

Supervisor negative gossip and employees' thriving at work

Q Zhu, F Wei, MF Moin - The Service Industries Journal, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory, we examine (a) how supervisor
negative gossip affects frontline employees' thriving at the workplace through positive affect …