A Study of the Effect of Negative Workplace Gossip on Employees’ Proactive Behavior
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_80How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- negative workplace gossip; proactive behavior; emotional exhaustion; psychological resilience; conservation of resources theory
- Abstract
Negative workplace gossip spreads through informal channels, bringing negative consequences to the organization and employees. Based on conservation of resources theory, this study introduces emotional exhaustion and psychological resilience to investigate the influence of negative gossip on proactive behavior. By analyzing 230 samples, the study finds that (1) negative gossip affects proactive behaviors negatively; (2) emotional exhaustion partially mediates the connection between negative gossip and proactive behaviors; (3) psychological resilience negatively moderates the connection between negative gossip and emotional exhaustion. This study extends the understanding of the influence mechanism of negative gossip, offering valuable insights for enterprises to effectively manage gossip and foster proactive behaviors of employees.
- Copyright
- © 2024 The Author(s)
- Open Access
- Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Tingting Shi PY - 2024 DA - 2024/09/02 TI - A Study of the Effect of Negative Workplace Gossip on Employees’ Proactive Behavior BT - Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2024) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 724 EP - 730 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_80 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_80 ID - Shi2024 ER -