GOSSIP Good morning everyone. Today I would like to take a few minutes to speak about a topic that many of us disregard - gossip. So what exactly is gossip? It is idle talk or rumor‚ especially about the personal or private affairs of others. The Bible has nothing good to say about gossip. In Romans Ch 1‚ gossip is classified as one of the evils of men... it is a sin. • Remember that one of the most important commandment in the Bible is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. But
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Venita Bowden Mrs. Wojt DRE -98-1001 09‚ September‚ 2013 “Rumors/Gossiping” There are many reasons why people feel compelled to gossip‚ therefore‚ humiliating and putting others down. Sometimes people do it out of spite‚ just because they can. Other times people gossip because they feel they will benefit from its end result‚ such as possibly looking better in front of the boss in a working situation. But the true‚ deep rooted reason‚ and psychological studies have proven it‚ is the feeling
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Rumors in the Workplace “Oh what a tangled web we weave‚ when first we practice to deceive” (Sir Walter Scott). Rumors can be devastating to both a company as well as the employees in some cases even crippling the company itself. Most employees do not realize that is exactly what they are doing when repeating unsubstantiated comments. A rumor‚ by Webster’s definition‚ is an unconfirmed but widely circulated story or a piece of gossip. Once a company is faced with the rumor mill they have a
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Rumors are dark‚ hurtful‚ mischievous things that are spread to cause destruction. Rumors have been around since the beginning of time‚ and are stronger now more than ever. Rumors are whispered‚ as if to indicate that they will not spread. Rumors are shouted‚ printed‚ posted‚ and broadcasted. Rumors are lies and those whom associate with rumors are bad people‚ or are they? Rumors are not always bad‚ and they don’t always turn out to be lies. There are many unknown things about rumors‚ like how
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Wild Fire; How a Rumor Consumes and Spreads Did you hear what happened to ______(insert a famous person or someone in your network)? This question never seems to leave us unfazed. It immediately lures us in the trap of rumor and will not let us go. Like a tumor‚ a rumor quickly spreads. Rumor is a circulating story or information that is unverified; it is a reflection of our worldview. An example we will talk about is fear. The fears that easily grip our hearts shows how rumor becomes active
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What is Sea-floor spreading? Seafloor spreading is a process of plate tectonics in which new oceanic crust is created as large lumps of the Earth ’s crust split apart from each other and magma shafts up to fill the gap. Who discovered sea-floor spreading? The man who discovered sea floor spreading was Harry Hess. Harry Hess was a geologist. Part of his mission had been to study the deepest parts of the ocean floor. In 1946 he had discovered that hundreds of flat-topped mountains‚ perhaps sunken
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GRAPEVINE AND ITS MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Grapevine is an informal channel of business communication. It is called so because it stretches throughout the organization in all directions irrespective of the authority levels. Man as we know is a social animal. Despite existence of formal channels in an organization‚ the informal channels tend to develop when he interacts with other people in organization. It exists more at lower levels of organization. The dictionary gives us a
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Case Study Synopsis: Four women from a New Hampshire town were fired from their town jobs due to spreading a rumor about the town administrator. From the facts given‚ the administrator was being gossiped about having an affair with another town employee. He complained to the town council‚ who launched an investigation. The council then fired the four women‚ all longtime employees‚ for spreading a rumor and refuses to have anyone of them reinstated. Two of the ladies will never be allowed to apply
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probably wouldn’t be dead because they would have discussed about it first. She thought that if she moved place to place the rumors would be left behind. A rumor is something going around as gossip known as "not true" they say that she has "things" in her dresser. No one isn’t powerful then the other were all the same‚ rumors can’t be positive. Yes it does because rumors are just lies. The different perspectives of how her story plays out is like they didn’t know that what they do and how they act
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How to deal with rumors on the grapevine By Kim Harrison‚ Consultant‚ Author and Principal of www.cuttingedgepr.com If managers and supervisors don’t attend to the communication needs of their staff‚ there is no vacuum of information. Instead‚ the informal avenue of rumors grows‚ frequently putting a destructive slant on organizational happenings when employees are uncertain. Some people say that up to 70% of the information employees receive is via the grapevine. Information via the grapevine
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