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Office Gossip and Minority Employees in the South African Workplace

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Editors:
  1. Nasima M. H. Carrim

    1. Human Resource Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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  • 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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Office Gossip and Minorities

    • Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 1-7

  3. A Review of Workplace Gossip: The Development of a Process Model for Studying Workplace Gossip

    • Kirk Chang
    Pages 9-32

  4. Exploring the Perceptions of Diverse Groups Regarding Workplace Gossip

    • Nasima M. H. Carrim, Lisa Gerber, Bronwyn Menne-Jooste
    Pages 33-57

  5. Perceptions of Office Gossip Among Diverse Employee Groups in Saudi Arabia

    • Arun Vijay Subbarayalu, Ajayan Kamalasanan
    Pages 59-85

  6. Gossip in Teams

    • Nicole Cindy Joubert, Nasima M. H. Carrim, Jan Alewyn Nel
    Pages 87-119

  7. The Experiences of Black African Managers on Office Gossip

    • Tebogo Mokwebo, Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 121-146

  8. The Experiences of Black African Gays and Lesbians Regarding Office Gossip

    • Baipidi Morakile, Nasima M. H. Carrim, Juan A. Nel
    Pages 147-174

  9. Workplace Gossip and the Experiences of Foreign Nationals

    • Hilma Negonga, Eunice Mwabi, Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 175-197

  10. Oh no They Didn’t! Dishing the Dirt on Office Gossip Stemming from Envy and Jealousy

    • Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 199-217

  11. Workplace Gossip Among Dog Trainers

    • Lebogang Mongale, Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 219-257

  12. The Effect of Gossip on Marginalised Sportswomen in South Africa

    • Marle Scholtz, Nasima M. H. Carrim
    Pages 259-274

  13. “Yes, Gossip is Good!”: Competition and the Performance of Camaraderie in a University Setting

    • Julaina A. Obika, Martha Kibukamusoke
    Pages 275-289
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Human Resource Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Nasima M. H. Carrim

About the editor

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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