Impacts of Negative Gossips at Workplaces on Employees' Proactive Work Behaviors#br#

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Abstract: Based on the social identity theory, a model of the relationships among workplace negative gossips, group identity,
employees' proactive work and their conventionality has been constructed and verified with empirical evidence. Results of the analyses
show that workplace negative gossips have negative impacts on the employees' proactive work, that their group identities serves
completely as a medium between negative gossips and proactive work, and that employees' conventionality will moderate the influence
of negative gossips on their group identities, which means the more conventional an employee is, the less his/her group identity will be
influenced by the negative gossips at the workplace.

Key words: workplace negative gossips, group identity, proactive work behavior, conventionality, social identity theory

Yue Wenzhong, Yang Ziwei, Liu Chunhua. Impacts of Negative Gossips at Workplaces on Employees' Proactive Work Behaviors#br#[J]. Journal of Dali University, DOI: 10. 3969 / j. issn. 2096-2266. 2018. 01. 020.

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