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Sub-theme 30:
Evil Tongues at Work? The Unmanaged Space/s of Organizational
Gossip
Convenors:
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Session I: Thursday, July
10 – 11:00–12:30
The Spaces of Gossip |
Chair: Ad van Interson
Ad van Iterson, Kathryn Waddington and Grant Michelson
Welcome and General Introduction to the Sub-theme
Bruce Fortado
Organizational gossip: Cultural matter or antimatter?
Discussant: Piers Myers
Rachel Hurdley
The power of corridors: Listening, watching, talking and hiding
in the gaps of an organisation
Discussant: Stefanie Ernst
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Session
II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Link with Other Concepts |
Chair: Kathryn Waddington
Travis Grosser, Virginie Kidwell, Goce Andrevski and Guiseppe
(Joe) Labianca
The role of positive and negative gossip in organizational life
Discussant: Bianca Beersma
Marie-Claude Rabeau
Guess what? Someone saw them having a drink together! Workplace
romance as a hot topic for organizational gossip
Discussant: Grant Michelson
Ad van Iterson and Stewart Clegg
Power and wheat: The politics of rumour in inter-organizational
relations
Discussant: Brian Melaugh
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Session III: Friday, July
11 – 9:00–10:30
Theory Building |
Chair: Grant Michelson
Anthony Yue
Speaking of gossip at work … Social grooming and instrumentality
intertwined
Discussants: Jeannette Lemmergaard and Sara Louise Muhr
Gokce Anac and Gokce Dervisoglu
Toward a model of gossip and hierarchy in the workplace
Discussant: Bruce Fortado
Bianca Beersma and Gerben van Kleef
Why people gossip: Social functions, antecedents and consequences
Discussants: Lea Ellwardt, Rudi Weilers and Rafael Wittek
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Session IV: Friday, July
11
– 14:00–15:30
Organizational Change |
Chair: Ad van Iterson
Kathryn Waddington and Grant Michelson
Gossip in organizations: An exploration of knowledge and power
issues
Discussants: Stephen Billing and Margaret Miller
Lea Ellwardt, Rudi Wielers and Rafael Wittek
How does organizational gossip affect employee well-being?
Discussants: Gokce Anac and Gokce Dervisoglu
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Session V: Friday, July 11
– 16:15–17:45
Forms of Gossip |
Chair: Kathryn Waddington
Piers Myers
Idle presentiments of corporate scandal
Discussants: Travis Grosser, Virginie Kidwell, Goce Andrevski
and Guiseppe Labianca
Maurizio Torchio
Writing gossip: From living scents to phantoms
Discussant: Ad van Iterson
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Session VI: Saturday, July
12 – 9:00–10:30
Power and Gender |
Chair: Grant Michelson
Stephen Billing and Margaret Miller
Gossip, power, ambiguity and ideology – Organisational processes
of revealing and concealing
Discussant: Anthony Yue
Stefanie Ernst
Gossip, gender and power: Interdependencies between established
and outsiders
Discussant: Maurizio Torchio
Jeannette Lemmergaard and Sara Louise Muhr
White man talks with two tongues – Whiteness, masculinity and
gossip
Discussant: Marie-Claude Rabeau
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Session VII: Saturday,
July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Social Networks and Gossip |
Chair: Kathryn Waddington
Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky
Three degrees of inclusion – Gossip in social networks
Discussant: Gerben van Kleef
Hjördis Becker
Strategies of secrets in organizations: A framework for
interpreting concealment and revelation in the work place
Discussant: Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky
Open Forum/Discussion: What Have We Learned?
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