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Office Gossip and Minority Employees in the South African Workplace

Editat de Nasima M. H. Carrim
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This book examines how employees from marginalized communities handle office gossip and provides recommendations to corporate leaders regarding on how to support their marginalized employees better. Office gossip is a phenomenon that is omnipresent in the workplace and experienced by minority employees at all levels within the organization in different ways. Gossip is felt more acutely by minority employees compared to their majority counterparts at certain occupational levels and this book provides an empirical basis for understanding this phenomenon in organizational settings based on the experiences of marginalized workers. The chapters use a variety of research methods to examine various aspects of the experience of office gossip among marginalized employees including: perceptions of diverse groups regarding workplace gossip, workplace gossip within teams, intersectional experiences of employees from racial minority and LGBTQ+ communities and foreign nationals, experiences of managers from racial minority backgrounds, and experiences in specific fields such as sport and healthcare. This book is of interest to students and researchers of diversity studies, organization research, human resource management, and industrial psychology as well as an important resource for corporate leadership and human resource and DEI departments in corporate organizations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789819926930
ISBN-10: 9819926939
Ilustrații: XII, 289 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:2023
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

Exploring the Perceptions of Diverse Groups Regarding Workplace Gossip.- Perceptions of Office Gossip Amongst Diverse Employee Groups in Saudi Arabia.- Gossip in Teams.- The Experiences of Black African Managers on Office Gossip.- The Experiences of Black African Gay and Lesbian Employees Regarding Office Gossip.- Workplace Gossip and the Experiences of Foreign Nationals.- Gossip in Sport.- Workplace Gossip Among Dog Trainers.- Gossip in Healthcare: Implications for Staff Wellbeing, Patient Safety, and Organizational Functioning.- A Review of Workplace Gossip: The Development of a Process Model for Studying Workplace Gossip.

Notă biografică

Prof. Nasima MH Carrim is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on gender in management, culture, religion and minorities in the workplace from an intersectionality and identity perspective. She was the recipient of the Emerald African Management Research Fund Award in 2014 for her study related to Indian male managers’ upward mobility in corporate South Africa. In 2014, she also received the Certificate of merit for teaching excellence and innovation at the University of Pretoria for her undergraduate course in diversity management. In 2017, Prof Carrim received the 2016 Best Junior Researcher in Management Sciences in the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria.

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This book examines how employees from marginalized communities handle office gossip and provides recommendations to corporate leaders regarding on how to support their marginalized employees better. Office gossip is a phenomenon that is omnipresent in the workplace and experienced by minority employees at all levels within the organization in different ways. Gossip is felt more acutely by minority employees compared to their majority counterparts at certain occupational levels and this book provides an empirical basis for understanding this phenomenon in organizational settings based on the experiences of marginalized workers. The chapters use a variety of research methods to examine various aspects of the experience of office gossip among marginalized employees including: perceptions of diverse groups regarding workplace gossip, workplace gossip within teams, intersectional experiences of employees from racial minority and LGBTQ+ communities and foreign nationals, experiences of managers from racial minority backgrounds, and experiences in specific fields such as sport and healthcare. This book is of interest to students and researchers of diversity studies, organization research, human resource management, and industrial psychology as well as an important resource for corporate leadership and human resource and DEI departments in corporate organizations.

Caracteristici

Examines how employees from marginalized communities handle office gossip in a South African context Investigates office gossip related to diverse contexts and different demographic variables Suggests practical solutions for corporate leadership for supporting minority employees in handling office gossip