Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip (2023)
Journal Article
Kakarika, M., Taghavi, S., & González-Gómez, H. (2024). Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip. Journal of Business Ethics, 189(2), 329-344. https://doi.org/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 moral... Read More about Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip.