They state that its pervasiveness suggests that "sanctions against gossip may be futile and underscores the importance of understanding gossip at a descriptive level." Specifically, they estimate that the average person spends 52 minutes per day
gossiping.
In the workplace, studies have shown that harmless
gossiping with one's colleagues can build group cohesiveness and boost morale.
The draft barangay ordinance just mentioned it wants to regulate
gossiping because it breeds community disunity, while not operationalizing the parameters of the violation.
What are the traits that people are
gossiping about?
"Generally, good gossip typically serves the interests of the group and not those of the individual doing the
gossiping," said Dr Brown.
However, in the current study, the researcher concluded that there was a significant difference between males and female workers
gossiping in the workplace of Puerto Rico.
Your Code of Conduct could spell out clearly that malicious
gossiping against a co-employee is unacceptable behavior as it causes discord, besmirches one's reputation and is, therefore, subject to disciplinary action.
Also, by
gossiping about mutually interesting topics, such as dislike of a third person, ISs build friendships and a social network (Wert & Salovey, 2004).
Often graduates are told to network, but people end up networking by
gossiping with co-workers or even higher-ups.
Gossiping is a distributed computation, where a node exchanges and updates information at each time at most with one of its neighbors according to some rules [4].
The study, which asked 121 of the university's undergraduates to analyse their motives for
gossiping, found that although some wanted to manipulate others, entertain themselves or find out information about a mutual acquaintance, others chose to gossip to protect the group from harmful behaviour among some members.
Excessive
gossiping at the workplace may not be good for you or your co- workers.
But who can heed these school-marmish warnings when the pleasure of
gossiping, backbiting, and otherwise diminishing our enemies is so great, and the only remaining reward for continence is the flaccid honor of being thought "nice"?
