TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping with negative workplace gossip
T2 - The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics
AU - Xie, Jun
AU - Huang, Qihai
AU - Wang, Hongli
AU - Shen, Minghao
N1 - Funding Information:
Jun Xie has received research grants from National Natural Science foundation of China (71502042); Corresponding Author Hongli Wang has received research grants from National Natural Science foundation of China (71402057).
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 71502042 , 71872066 ), the Project of Guangdong Provincial Humanities and Social Science Key Research Base (grant no. 18JD07 ), the Project of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies National and Regional Research (grant no. 311-GK182017 ), General projects of Humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education ( Y9180140 , 17JZD020 ), Central University project ( D2180750 ).
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PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Although researchers have examined the effects of negative workplace gossip on target employees' work-related behavior, it remains unclear when and how personality traits play a role between negative workplace gossip and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping, we posit a mediated moderation model of the effects of self-monitoring and impression management tactics on the relationship between negative workplace gossip and target employees' OCB. By collecting supervisor-subordinate dyadic time-lagged data, we demonstrated that the relationship between negative workplace gossip and OCB was weaker when employees were high self-monitors. In addition, we found that the moderating effects of self-monitoring were mediated by the use of impression management tactics.
AB - Although researchers have examined the effects of negative workplace gossip on target employees' work-related behavior, it remains unclear when and how personality traits play a role between negative workplace gossip and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping, we posit a mediated moderation model of the effects of self-monitoring and impression management tactics on the relationship between negative workplace gossip and target employees' OCB. By collecting supervisor-subordinate dyadic time-lagged data, we demonstrated that the relationship between negative workplace gossip and OCB was weaker when employees were high self-monitors. In addition, we found that the moderating effects of self-monitoring were mediated by the use of impression management tactics.
KW - Impression management tactics
KW - Negative workplace gossip
KW - Organizational citizenship behavior
KW - Self-monitoring
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.025
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068598814
VL - 151
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
M1 - 109482
ER -
