Description: Gossip and Organizations, Paperback by Waddington, Kathryn, ISBN 1138018317, ISBN-13 9781138018310, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's experiences of researching gossip in nursing and healthcare organizations and higher educational institutions. Kathryn Waddington aims to dispel once and for all the myth that women gossip and men have conversations, shattering the illusion that gossip at work is trivial talk. This book challenges the assumption that gossip is a problem that should be discouraged. While there is undoubtedly a dark side to gossip, Kathryn Waddington argues that paying closer attention to gossip as organizational communication and knowledge enables exploration of other ways of seeing, interpreting and understanding organizations. Gossip is not merely an impediment of organizing, it is a form of organizing which shapes perceptions and actions, and can forewarn managers of future failure in organizational systems. The complexity of gossip is such that a of range inter-disciplinary explanations is necessary in order to account for this form of communication and knowledge across multiple levels and spaces in and around organizations. Waddington provides a new evidence-based framework incorporating ethics, emotion, identity, sensemaking and power as a guide future research, theorizing and critical reflective and reflexive practice in the field of organizational gossip.
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Book Title: Gossip and Organizations
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Name: Gossip and Organizations
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Business Communication / General, Organizational Behavior, Popular Culture, General, Workplace Culture
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Length: 6 in
Author: Kathryn Waddington
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
