The Influence of Negative Gossip on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Moderating Effect of Moral Courage

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200306.163How to use a DOI?

Keywords

negative workplace gossip, guilty, OCB

Abstract

Research on negative workplace gossip has focused on the impact on victims, ignoring how employees respond to their own negative workplace gossip. Based on the theory of moral compensation, we hypothesizes that employees who engage in negative workplace gossip may engage in organizational citizenship behavior as a result of guilty. The results of an experience sampling study have shown that negative workplace gossip can lead to feelings of guilt in employees’ daily work, which can lead to organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, the moral courage of employees strengthen these effects by increasing employees’ awareness of their unethical behavior and their willingness and determination to compensate for it. Our research helps theoretically understand how employees react to negative workplace gossip and provides insight into how and when disruptive employee behavior can lead to more constructive behavior.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wen Nai
AU  - He Saiting
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/12
TI  - The Influence of Negative Gossip on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Moderating Effect of Moral Courage
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICMETIE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 498
EP  - 504
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.163
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.163
ID  - Nai2020
ER  -