Kakarika Maria, Taghavi Shiva, González-Gómez Helena V
Durham University Business School, Durham, UK.
NEOMA Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
J Bus Ethics. 2023 Mar 4:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10551-023-05355-7.
We conducted three studies to examine how the recipients of negative workplace gossip judge the gossip sender's morality and how they respond behaviorally. Study 1 provided experimental evidence that gossip recipients perceive senders as low in morality, with female recipients rating the sender's morality more negatively than male recipients. In a follow-up experiment (Study 2), we further found that perceived low morality translates into behavioral responses in the form of career-related sanctions by the recipient on the gossip sender. A critical incident study (Study 3) enhanced the external validity and extended the moderated mediation model by showing that gossip recipients also penalize senders with social exclusion. We discuss the implications for practice and research on negative workplace gossip, gender differences in attributions of morality, and gossip recipients' behavioral responses.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-023-05355-7.
我们进行了三项研究，以考察职场负面八卦的接收者如何评判八卦传播者的道德水平，以及他们会做出怎样的行为反应。研究1提供了实验证据，表明八卦接收者认为传播者道德水平低下，女性接收者对传播者道德水平的评价比男性接收者更负面。在后续实验（研究2）中，我们进一步发现，感知到的低道德水平会转化为接收者对八卦传播者采取与职业相关制裁形式的行为反应。一项关键事件研究（研究3）通过表明八卦接收者也会通过社会排斥来惩罚传播者，增强了外部效度并扩展了调节中介模型。我们讨论了这些研究结果对职场负面八卦的实践和研究、道德归因中的性别差异以及八卦接收者行为反应的启示。
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