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Article: COMMUNICATION ; Workplace Gossip - It's not all bad Pssst... Have you heard the latest? People gossip at work. Susan Hafen argues that gossiping workmates are not always bad news for companies.
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- New Zealand Management
- Article date:
- October 6, 2005
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While networks, grapevines and rumours are acknowledged forms of
organisational communication, little has been done to understand the
role of gossip in the workplace. Perhaps that's because gossip is
associated more with women and therefore scholars have ignored it as
trivia, but Susan Hafen says it's time gossip got some air time. An
associate professor in communication at Weber State University in
Utah, Hafen chalked up experience in human resources in the energy
and manufacturing industries before she became an academic.
"Gossip needs to be legitimised as an important workplace
communication," she told a seminar at Waikato Management School
during a recent visit to New Zealand.
Hafen ...
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