Passing the Word: Toward a Model of Gossip and Power in the Workplace

By Nancy B. Kurland, L. H. Pelled. 2000

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life (2010, background): “Kurland and Pelled (2000) point out that if a gossiper spreads positive news about others, gossip recipients are likely to think the gossiper will also spread good news about them and thus confer reward power to the gossiper.”
Narcissistic leadership and behavioral cynicism in the hotel industry: the role of employee silence and negative workplace gossiping (2020, background): “Gossiping is often viewed as casual, informal or unrestricted discussion, usually with information that is not definitely true (Kurland and Pelled, 2000).”
Perceptions of Negative Workplace Gossip: A Self-Consistency Theory Framework (2018, background): “Yet much of what we know about gossip in the organizational sciences is either theoretical (Kurland & Pelled, 2000), inferred from related literatures (e.g., social mistreatment; Duffy, Ganster, & Pagon, 2002; Kulik, Bainbridge, & Cregan, 2008) or other fields (e.g., social anthropology; Kniffin &…”
Management Are Aliens! (2006, background): “Rumors also differ from other genres of informal communication, such as gossip, which tends to be about people and serves social and political agendas (Kurland & Pelled, 2000; Noon & Delbridge, 1993; Rosnow, 2001).”
Is gossip power? The inverse relationships between gossip, power, and likability (2011, background): “Although Kurland and Pelled (2000) predicted that positive gossip would increase reward power and negative gossip would increase coercive power, the present study operationalized power in terms of social power or influence.”
EFFICACY DISPERSION IN TEAMS: MOVING BEYOND AGREEMENT AND AGGREGATION (2010, background): “Other scholars have described social power in similar terms (e.g., Finkelstein, 1992; French & Raven, 1959; House, 1988; Kurland & Pelled, 2000).”
Workplace gossip and frontline employees’ proactive service performance (2019, background): “As workplace gossip is disseminated in the absence of the target (Kurland & Pelled, 2000), it is deemed a form of indirect attack and aggression (Beersma & Van Kleef, 2012).”
Gossip in the workplace and the implications for HR management: a study of gossip and its relationship to employee cynicism (2015, methodology): “Overall, the findings have enriched the understanding of the link between gossip and ECN over and above what we know from previous empirical studies of gossip (Kurland & Pelled, 2000; McAndrew et al., 2007).”
Do loose lips sink ships? The meaning, antecedents and consequences of rumour and gossip in organisations (2004, background): “Variables associated with the rumour/gossip Some researchers have previously argued that rumour credibility, or the extent to which the message is believable, is an important factor that helps predict whether information is communicated to others (Festinger et al., 1948; Kurland and Pelled, 2000; Ro”
Experiencing Gossip: The Foundations for a Theory of Embedded Organizational Gossip (2010, background): “…organizational communication, sensemaking Although there have been some notable studies that have addressed gossip (e.g., Houmanfar & Johnson, 2003; Kurland & Pelled, 2000), this informal type of organizational communication has tended to remained underresearched 1University of Canterbury,…”
Research on Gossip: Taxonomy, Methods, and Future Directions (2004, background): “Coworkers learn what is expected of them by hearing stories holding high performers up to praise and low performers to shame; the “corporate culture” in an organization is commonly expressed this way in gossipy stories (Kurland & Pelled, 2000; Noon & Delbridge, 1993).”