Gossiping About an Arrogant Leader: Sparked by Inconsistent Leadership, Mitigated by Employee Resilience

Clercq, Dirk De; Fatima, Tasneem; Jahanzeb, Sadia

doi:10.1177/0021886320917520

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“…In such cases, individuals with high resilience possess the capacity to successfully deal with tough situations. Therefore, resource drainage is reduced to the extent that employees can rely on their resilience levels (De Clercq et al, 2020b). Likewise, according to Kermott et al (2019), resilient individuals are less affected by negative surroundings, and they tend to have a reduced stress level.…”

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Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience

Khan

Mubarak

Khattak

et al. 2022

IJMPB

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PurposeBased on conservation of resources theory, the present study aims to investigate the negative leadership style (i.e. despotic leadership) and its influence on a key dimension of project success (i.e. project efficiency) directly and indirectly via employees’ job stress. Moreover, this study also aims to investigate the moderating role of resilience on the relationship between despotic leadership and employees’ job stress.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a time-lagged design and collected data via purposive sampling technique from 342 information technology project employees. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25 and AMOS 24.FindingsThe findings are in line with the proposed relationship, as despotic leadership negatively influences project efficiency via employees’ job stress and resilience plays a vital role in mitigating the effects of despotic leadership on employees' job stress.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study provide direction to information technology firms to develop strategies to decrease employees’ stress and increase project efficiency.Originality/valueThis study extends the literature on leadership and information technology projects by examining how despotic leadership influences project efficiency via employees’ job stress. Negative leadership exists in organizations but has not yet been empirically explored; this study finds that it increases subordinates’ stress level and ultimately influences project efficiency.

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Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience

Khan

Mubarak

Khattak

et al. 2022

IJMPB

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“…Viewing this result from the lens of SET (Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005), another possibility is that negative relational exchanges with leaders drive subordinates to retaliate by gossiping negatively about said leaders, thus positioning negative gossip as the outcome of poor relationships between employees and their supervisors. Indeed, some prior pieces of research (e.g., De Clercq et al, 2020) have positioned negative gossip as the outcome of relationships with toxic leaders. Yet another possibility is that the relation between gossip and workplace relationships is bidirectional.…”

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Spilling tea at the water cooler: A meta-analysis of the literature on workplace gossip

Hopmeyer

Rodriguez

Asencio

2022

Organizational Psychology Review

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This paper presents a meta-analysis on workplace gossip as a predictor of individual, relational, and organizational outcomes. Our systematic review yielded 52 independent studies ( n = 14,143). Results suggested that negative workplace gossip has a more deleterious association with workplace outcomes than positive gossip. Furthermore, findings indicated that negative gossip has a disproportionately negative association with attitudinal/affective outcomes and coworker relationships for targets of gossip. Unexpectedly, results also suggested that senders and recipients of negative gossip may also experience highly deleterious outcomes; in fact, the relations between negative gossip and well-being, engagement/performance, supervisor relationships, and organizational outcomes were more negative for gossip participants than targets, although the direction of causality for these relations has yet to be conclusively determined. Overall, our results suggest that organizations and managers should take seriously the threat of negative gossip to the health of the organization at large, while simultaneously leveraging the potential benefits of positive gossip. This paper presents a meta-analysis on the topic of workplace gossip as a predictor of work-relevant outcomes. Results—which were based on 52 independent studies that, in total, employed 14,143 independent research participants—suggested that negative workplace gossip has a worse impact on individual, relational, and organizational outcomes than positive gossip does. Furthermore, our findings indicated that targets of negative gossip experience the worst outcomes in terms of attitudes/affect and coworker relationships, when compared with the outcomes of individuals who exchanged the gossip. Unexpectedly, patterns of results also suggested that individuals who exchange negative gossip at work may also experience highly deleterious outcomes, although the direction of causality for these relations has yet to be conclusively determined. Overall, our results suggest that organizations and managers should take seriously the threat of negative gossip to the health of the organization at large, and may also be able to leverage the potentially beneficial effects of positive gossip. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our results.

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“…Overall, we adopted this approach because it offers a complete assessment of mediation and moderated mediation effects along with the calculation of individual paths (see e.g. De Clercq et al, 2021; Skiba & Wildman, 2019; Wang et al, 2018). Using its underlying approach of bootstrapping, we accounted for the possibility that the sampling distribution of relationships might be skewed or asymmetric (MacKinnon et al, 2004).…”

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Does attachment anxiety accentuate the effect of perceived contract breach on counterproductive work behaviors?

Jahanzeb

Bouckenooghe

Baig

2022

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Applying belongingness and attachment theories, we explore the association between employees' perception of psychological contract breach and counterproductive work behaviors, while also considering the mediating effect of workplace ostracism and the moderating role of attachment styles (i.e., attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance). Time‐lagged data from full‐time personnel working in telecommunications and transportation sectors in North America were collected at three different time points with an interval of 3 weeks between each wave. A total of 272 responses from the three measurement points were retained for our analysis. In support of what was hypothesized, our study's findings show that perception of contract breach fueled workplace deviance through the anticipated effect of workplace ostracism. Furthermore, and in line with what we assumed, the mediating effect of workplace ostracism was reinforced by employees' fear of rejection and abandonment in relationships (i.e., attachment anxiety). The role of attachment avoidance, however, was not found to moderate the indirect effect, contrary to our expectations. In conclusion, embedded in belongingness and attachment theorizing, this study offers empirical evidence of how workplace ostracism is a crucial mechanism that helps to explain the indirect effect through which psychological contract breach triggers counterproductive work behaviors. Furthermore, our findings illustrate how this relationship is conditional on attachment anxiety observed in employees.

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Gossiping About an Arrogant Leader: Sparked by Inconsistent Leadership, Mitigated by Employee Resilience

Cited by 18 publications

References 64 publications

Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience

Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience

Spilling tea at the water cooler: A meta-analysis of the literature on workplace gossip

Does attachment anxiety accentuate the effect of perceived contract breach on counterproductive work behaviors?

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