Social Information Processing and Job Characteristics: A Simultaneous Test of Two Theories with Implications for Job Satisfaction.

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Gossip in the workplace and the implications for HR management: a study of gossip and its relationship to employee cynicism (2015, background): “Social information theory does not explain the mechanism nor direction of influence, but Pollock, Whitbred, and Contractor (2000) suggest that social context and individuals are like ties and nodes in a wider network.”
How coworkers attribute, react to, and shape job crafting (2019, background): “It has been stated that individuals generally spend more time dealing with the consequences of their actions than with the planning of these actions (Pollock et al., 2000), and we expect that this would be the case for job crafting as well.”
Organizational Communication and Job Satisfaction in Australian Catholic Primary Schools (2008, background): “It would appear that the best way to approach a study of job satisfaction, is to use theory that best applies to the context being studied (Arnolds and Boshoff, 2002; Pollock et al., 2000).”
Believing one's own press: the causes and consequences of CEO celebrity (2004, background): “Perspectives on social information processing (Festinger, 1957; Pollock, Whitbred, and Contractor, 2000; Pfeffer and Salancik, 1978) also suggest that individuals rely on the perceptions and actions of others to infer their own attitudes and beliefs.”