Effect of Positive Workplace Gossip on Employee Silence: Psychological Safety as Mediator and Promotion-Focused as Moderator

The development of electronic information technology has made workplace gossip more ubiquitous.As a part of interpersonal communication on informal occasions,positive workplace gossip affects individuals’mood,cogni-tion,and behaviors.In light of this and based on the Social Interdependence Theory,the study proposed that positive workplace gossip has a negative effect on employee silence,and psychological safety mediates this rela-tionship.In addition,the promotion-focused moderates the relationship between psychological safety and employee silence.Based on a two-wave sampling design from 311 innovative enterprises employees,the results of Structural Equation Model by AMOS 22.0 and Mplus 7.0 supported all the hypotheses.Results revealed that positive workplace gossip can decrease the employee silence through the mediating role of psychological safety and moderating role of promotion-focused.Thesefindings provided theoretical implications and practical sugges-tions for enterprise managers to create positive communication climate to reduce employee silence.

A study on predicting crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events

Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events.Therefore,clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination and making accurate predictions to effectively control such situations have attracted extensive attention.Based on media richness theory and persuasion theory,this study constructs an index system of crisis information dissemination impact factors from two aspects:the crisis information publisher and the published crisis information content.A multi-layer perceptron is used to analyze the weight of the index system,and the prediction is transformed into a pattern classification problem to test crisis information dissemination.In this study,COVID-19 is considered a representative event.An experiment is conducted to predict the crisis information dissemination of COVID-19 in two megacities.Data related to COVID-19 from these two megacities are acquired from the well-known Chinese social media platform Weibo.The experimental results show that not only the identity but also the social influence of the information publisher has a significant impact on crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events.Furthermore,the proposed model achieves more than 95%test accuracy,precision rate,recall value and f1-score in the prediction task.The study provides decision-making support for government departments and a guide for correctly disseminating crisis information and public opinion during future epidemic-level public health events.

员工工作激情的人际互动前因及其对自利行为的影响机制模型

在不同内/外部动机的驱动下,员工会出现两种工作激情状态,即“发自内心热爱”的和谐型工作激情和“迫于社会认可”的强迫型工作激情。现有研究大多关注此两种激情模式下的积极效应,然而,过高的工作激情也可能导致员工自利行为的发生。员工最重要的互动对象是直线领导与团队成员,他们的情绪状态对员工工作激情产生直接影响,然而现有研究大多基于自我验证和社会认知等理论,从单一层面分析领导或个体对工作激情的影响,鲜有研究综合考察工作场所中人际互动效应的系统性研究,缺少跨层次研究范式。本文首先基于情绪传染理论分析了领导和团队工作激情对员工工作激情的影响,以及领导与团队认同在此情绪传染过程中的边界作用。其次,基于情感事件理论,将领导与团队工作激情的外在表现视为工作环境特征,构建了员工工作激情与自利行为的双路径影响机制模型,并进一步分析了工作压力与调节焦点的中介和调节作用。研究结论从人际互动视角扩展了工作激情跨层次研究,并应用情感事件理论拓展工作激情与自利行为双路径作用关系的理论版图,为企业激发员工工作激情,有效降低自利行为提供理论基础与管理依据。