The Impact of Positive Workplace Gossip on Employees' Job Satisfaction: A Study Based on the Confucian Humanistic Management

Abstract

Based on the Confucian philosophy of humanistic management, a relationship model between positive workplace gossip and employees' job satisfaction is constructed through a questionnaire survey of 205 Chinese corporate employees. Meanwhile, psychological capital and organizational identity are introduced as mediating variables to analyze the impact of positive workplace gossip on the satisfaction of the gossiped employees and the formation mechanism. The results show that: positive workplace gossip has a significant positive impact on employees' job satisfaction. ②Psychological capital has significant mediating effects on the relationship between positive workplace gossip and job satisfaction. ③Organizational identity has significant mediating effects on the relationship between positive workplace gossip and job satisfaction.