Hearing It Through the Grapevine: Positive and Negative Workplace Gossip

By Travis J. Grosser, Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, Giuseppe Labianca, L. Ellwardt. 2012

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Perceptions of Negative Workplace Gossip: A Self-Consistency Theory Framework (2018, background): “Gossip has also been shown to facilitate information sharing (e.g., during periods of uncertainty and organizational change; Mills, 2010), preserve group solidarity, and control self-serving behavior (e.g., to enforce group norms; Grosser et al., 2012; Kniffin & Wilson, 2005), among other functions.”