Receiving Gossip from Your Leader? Leader Gossip and Employee Voice Behavior

Zhu, Chunling; Zhang, Fangliang

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“…Gossip is an effective technique for strengthening informal employee relationships [3,4]. Negative workplace gossip (NWG) is an "informal and evaluative discussion in an organisation about another member of an organisation who is not present" [5,6].…”

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Have You Heard That—“GOSSIP”? Gossip Spreads Rapidly and Influences Broadly

Ullah

Zada

Saeed

et al. 2021

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This study examines the impact of negative workplace gossip (NWG) on employee political acts (PA) and the role of ego depletion (ED) as a mediator. We also examined the indirect impact of NWG on PA through ED controlled by emotional intelligence (EI). A three-wave time-lagged study (paper-pencil based) was performed with 277 employees from various private organisations in Islamabad, Pakistan. The current data were gathered in three phases to reduce common method bias. Study results indicate that NWG positively affects employees’ PA. The authors also found ED as a potential mediator in the association between NWG and PA. In addition, the results also indicate the indirect effect of NWG on targets’ PA via ED is reduced by targets’ EI, with the result that this connection is weak when targets’ EI is high. Because this research is limited to a single region of Pakistan, particularly Islamabad, its findings cannot be comprehensive. Future studies should use a larger sample size to accomplish the same study. Future studies may include more organisations (that is, Public) to conduct a comparative analysis of the public and private sectors. This article, based on the affective events theory (AET), argues that EI should be utilised to mitigate the effects of NWG. Along with our significant and relevant theoretical contributions, we provide novel insights into the body of knowledge on how managers may prevent or minimise such PA. The current study results support all direct and indirect hypothesised connections, with important implications for theory and practice. A review of the existing literature indicates that EI may be associated with a reduction in employees’ ED; however, EI has not been used as a moderator in mitigating the influence of NWG, ED, and PA in the past.

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Have You Heard That—“GOSSIP”? Gossip Spreads Rapidly and Influences Broadly

Ullah

Zada

Saeed

et al. 2021

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“…This is especially true if the gossip target receives the negative comments on him/her, which damages individuals' self-esteem and exacerbates intragroup conflicts [11]. In such a case, individuals tend to reduce voice behaviors [12], which further impairs their job performance and stimulates resignation [13]. However, according to some scholars, either positive or negative gossip can constrain individual behaviors, which is conducive to the maintenance of social group norms and the establishment of organizational management mechanisms, thus encouraging organizational citizenship behaviors among individuals and reducing workplace deviant behaviors [13,14].…”

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Effect of Positive Workplace Gossip on Employee Silence: Psychological Safety as Mediator and Promotion-Focused as Moderator

Liao¹,

Wang²,

Li³

2022

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

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The development of electronic information technology has made workplace gossip more ubiquitous. As a part of interpersonal communication on informal occasions, positive workplace gossip affects individuals' mood, cognition, and behaviors. In light of this and based on the Social Interdependence Theory, the study proposed that positive workplace gossip has a negative effect on employee silence, and psychological safety mediates this relationship. In addition, the promotion-focused moderates the relationship between psychological safety and employee silence. Based on a two-wave sampling design from 311 innovative enterprises employees, the results of Structural Equation Model by AMOS 22.0 and Mplus 7.0 supported all the hypotheses. Results revealed that positive workplace gossip can decrease the employee silence through the mediating role of psychological safety and moderating role of promotion-focused. These findings provided theoretical implications and practical suggestions for enterprise managers to create positive communication climate to reduce employee silence.

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Receiving Gossip from Your Leader? Leader Gossip and Employee Voice Behavior

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Have You Heard That—“GOSSIP”? Gossip Spreads Rapidly and Influences Broadly

Have You Heard That—“GOSSIP”? Gossip Spreads Rapidly and Influences Broadly

Effect of Positive Workplace Gossip on Employee Silence: Psychological Safety as Mediator and Promotion-Focused as Moderator

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