Evolutionary Perspectives on Workplace Gossip: Why and How Gossip Can Serve Groups

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Situational job characteristics and job satisfaction: The moderating role of national culture (2015, background): “For instance, research suggests that, if pay incentives are altered in the form that they depend on grouplevel performance, then individual behavior can change (see Kniffin & Wilson, 2010).”
Perceptions of Negative Workplace Gossip: A Self-Consistency Theory Framework (2018, background): “…(e.g., gossip columns, social media, reality TV), not a type of behavior “whose existence we can recognize as neatly as rocks, trees, or automobiles” (Kniffin & Wilson, 2010: 153), and is often “taken for granted” or considered inconsequential, there is a danger that without improved…”
The Effect of Workplace Negative Gossip on Employee Proactive Behavior in China: The Moderating Role of Traditionality (2015, background): “Research has shown that gossip is a natural social phenomenon that occurs in all kinds of organizations (Dunbar et al. 1997; Foster 2004; Kniffin and Wilson 2010).”