Abstract
We draw upon social functional theory of gossip to theorize that team gossip buffers the harmful effects of team abusive supervision on team performance and team voluntary turnover via a dual-path mechanism: aggressive team norms and affective team trust. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a multi-wave, multi-source field study with a sample of 111 work teams. The results largely supported our model, showing that team members' negative gossip about the abusive team leader is a powerful tool to mitigate abusive supervision's detrimental consequences for team effectiveness.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings |
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| State | Published - 2021 |
| Event | 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021: Bringing the Manager Back in Management, AoM 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Jul 29 2021 → Aug 4 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Management Information Systems
- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Industrial relations
