Gossip and organizations

by Waddington, Kathryn

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Title Statements

Full title :Gossip and organizations / Kathryn Waddington.

Summary

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's experiences of researching gossip in nursing and healthcare organizations and higher educational institutions. Kathryn Waddington aims to dispel once and for all the myth that women gossip and men have conversations, shattering the illusion that gossip at work is trivial talk. This book challenges the assumption that gossip is a problem that should be discouraged. While there is undoubtedly a dark side to gossip, Kathryn Waddington argues that paying closer attention to gossip as organizational communication and knowledge enables exploration of other ways of seeing, interpreting and understanding organizations. Gossip is not merely an impediment of organizing, it is a form of organizing which shapes perceptions and actions, and can forewarn managers of future failure in organizational systems. The complexity of gossip is such that a of range inter-disciplinary explanations is necessary in order to account for this form of communication and knowledge across multiple levels and spaces in and around organizations. Waddington provides a new evidence-based framework incorporating ethics, emotion, identity, sensemaking and power as a guide future research, theorizing and critical reflective and reflexive practice in the field of organizational gossip.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 192 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415417853, 0415417856, 9780203111789, 0203111788, 9781138018310, 1138018317
oclc:ocn771425932
LC Classification:HD30.3
Dewey Decimal:650.01/4

Introduction -- Organizing gossip -- Gossip and ethics -- Gossip and emotion -- Gossip and identity -- The politics of gossip -- Sensemaking and the management of gossip -- Future directions.

Subjects

Communication dans les organisations Communication in organizations comportement organisationnel Corporate culture Culture d'entreprise Gossip Organizational behavior Potins