How does receiving gossip from coworkers influence employees' task performance and interpersonal deviance? The moderating roles of regulatory focus and the mediating role of vicarious learning.

Based on social learning theory and regulatory focus theory, we propose that receiving positive and negative gossip from coworkers increases individuals' vicarious learning, which subsequently improves their adaptive behaviours in the workplace, namely, increasing task performance and decreasing int...

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Published in:Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology Vol. 95; no. 2; pp. 213 - 239
Main Authors: Zhu, Qianlin, Martinescu, Elena, Beersma, Bianca, Wei, Feng
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2022
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