How is it going to end? Negative workplace gossip about coworkers, compensatory ethics and gossipers helping behavior toward coworkers DOI
Hongdan Zhao, Yunshuo Ma

Personnel Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025

Purpose Drawing upon compensatory ethics theory, this study explored the underlying mechanisms through which gossipers engaged in helping behavior as a form of compensation after initiating negative workplace gossip. Design/methodology/approach Through two-wave field 394 Chinese employees, tests theoretical hypotheses using path analysis and bootstrapping methods. Findings The findings suggested that gossip positively influenced gossipers’ moral self-image guilt. Moreover, reflectiveness not only moderated impacts on guilt but also mediating effects relationship between behavior. Originality/value These results enrich research gossip, offer new perspectives for studying phenomenon provide basis decision-making reference management practices.

Язык: Английский

How is it going to end? Negative workplace gossip about coworkers, compensatory ethics and gossipers helping behavior toward coworkers DOI
Hongdan Zhao, Yunshuo Ma

Personnel Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025

Purpose Drawing upon compensatory ethics theory, this study explored the underlying mechanisms through which gossipers engaged in helping behavior as a form of compensation after initiating negative workplace gossip. Design/methodology/approach Through two-wave field 394 Chinese employees, tests theoretical hypotheses using path analysis and bootstrapping methods. Findings The findings suggested that gossip positively influenced gossipers’ moral self-image guilt. Moreover, reflectiveness not only moderated impacts on guilt but also mediating effects relationship between behavior. Originality/value These results enrich research gossip, offer new perspectives for studying phenomenon provide basis decision-making reference management practices.

Язык: Английский

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