{"product_id":"gossip-and-organizations-kathryn-waddington-9780415417853","title":"Gossip and Organizations","description":"\u003cp\u003eGossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. \u003cem\u003eGossip and Organizations\u003c\/em\u003e provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's experiences of researching gossip in nursing and healthcare organizations and higher educational institutions. Kathryn Waddington aims to dispel once and for all the myth that women gossip and men have conversations, shattering the illusion that gossip at work is trivial talk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the assumption that gossip is a problem that should be discouraged. While there is undoubtedly a dark side to gossip, Kathryn Waddington argues that paying closer attention to gossip as organizational communication and knowledge enables exploration of other ways of seeing, interpreting and understanding organizations. Gossip is not merely an impediment of organizing, it is a form of organizing which shapes perceptions and actions, and can forewarn managers of future failure in organizational systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe complexity of gossip is such that a range inter-disciplinary explanations is necessary in order to account for this form of communication and knowledge across multiple levels and spaces in and around organizations. Waddington provides a new evidence-based framework incorporating ethics, emotion, identity, sensemaking and power as a guide future research, theorizing and critical reflective and reflexive practice in the field of organizational gossip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn Waddington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415417856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415417853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Kathryn Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48152999854335,"sku":"9780415417853","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ff8ee01-54ea-4c9a-a7ce-ab854f3aa9ac.jpg?v=1770780612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gossip-and-organizations-kathryn-waddington-9780415417853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}