A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life

By Travis J. Grosser, Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, Giuseppe Labianca. 2010

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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How to win friendship and trust by influencing people’s feelings: An investigation of interpersonal affect regulation and the quality of relationships (2012, background): “…or absence of a feature of relationships, because asking participants to rate aspects of each relationship (e.g. extent of strategy use, intensity of trust) would likely lead to respondent fatigue and thus unreliable data (Grosser et al., 2010; Ho et al., 2006; Krackhardt and Kilduff, 1999).”
Narcissistic leadership and behavioral cynicism in the hotel industry: the role of employee silence and negative workplace gossiping (2020, background): “It is regarded as a form of detrimental behavior as gossipers spread their malicious evaluations and/or opinions about their organization, colleagues and/or supervisors (Grosser et al., 2010).”
How the Grapevine Keeps You in Line (2011, background): “As such, it is important to take a network approach to gossiping in future studies and examine how the full process of gossip affects group functioning (cf., Burt & Knez, 1996; Grosser et al., 2010; McAndrew et al., 2007).”
Trust as a predictor of innovation network ties in project teams (2015, methodology): “To determine the coefficients, we based the segmentation on the basis that a given percentage of ties are low and the remainder are high (Grosser et al., 2010; Labianca and Brass, 2006).”
Perceptions of Negative Workplace Gossip: A Self-Consistency Theory Framework (2018, background): “…relieving stress; Waddington & Fletcher, 2005) or detrimental (e.g., frequent gossipers have been found to be associated with lower supervisor-rated performance, Grosser et al., 2010, and may possess greater behavioral problems, such as being disrespectful and unreliable, Loughry & Tosi, 2008).”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, background): “Likewise, different types of network content (e.g., gossip) can spread through social networks (Ellwardt et al. 2012; Grosser et al. 2010) and affect anyone who comes in contact with it (e.g., change attitudes about another; Burt and Knez 1995, 1996).”
Gossip in the workplace and the implications for HR management: a study of gossip and its relationship to employee cynicism (2015, background): “Grosser, Kidwell-Lopez, and Labianca (2010) argue that when the two gossipers have a close or intimate friendship they may engage in both positive and negative gossip.”
The positive wellbeing aspects of workaholism in cross cultural perspective (2011, background): “It is not the first time that a phenomenon that is apparently negative is revealed as a phenomenon with both positive and negative consequences (see for example gossip in organizations – Grosser et al. , 2010”