RT Article
T1 The Effect of Workplace Negative Gossip on Employee Proactive Behavior in China: The Moderating Role of Traditionality
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 148
IS 4
SP 801
OP 815
A1 Wu, Xiangfan
A1 Kwan, Ho Kwong
A1 Wu, Long-Zeng
A1 Ma, Jie
A2 Kwan, Ho Kwong
A2 Wu, Long-Zeng
A2 Ma, Jie
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/178566414X
AB In this study, we examined the relationship between workplace negative gossip, as perceived by the targets, and proactive behavior by focusing on the mediating role of the target’s emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of the target’s traditionality. Our results from dyadic data on 234 supervisor–subordinate relationships in China revealed that (1) workplace negative gossip was negatively related to proactive behavior; (2) emotional exhaustion mediated this relationship; and (3) traditionality strengthened both the relationship between workplace negative gossip and emotional exhaustion and the indirect effect of workplace negative gossip on proactive behavior via emotional exhaustion. Our findings have a number of theoretical and practical implications for the research on mistreatment and proactive behavior.
K1 Traditionality
K1 Proactive behavior
K1 Gossip
K1 Emotional Exhaustion
DO 10.1007/s10551-015-3006-5