Expertisecentrum

Eleanor Roosevelt once said that “great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, while small people talk about other people”. Gossip – informally talking in an evaluative way about others who are not present –  is according to both lay...

People gossip a lot, and they do it in every context they happen to find themselves, including the workplace. But does this information ever reach the colleague we are talking about, and if it does, how does it affect this person?

Gossip is widespread in organizations, but it seems to be a paradoxical behavior. On the one hand, people have a high interest in sharing their opinions about colleagues’ successes and failures, but on the other hand they fiercely blame anyone who is known...