c. What are the advantages and disadvantages of gossip in an organization?

Give and examples in the

laboratory organization when gossip is beneficial and non-beneficial. (Pictures or Illustration can be used
to present the advantages and disadvantages)

Advantages

 Workplace gossip offers useful insight into how workers think, feel and act. It's an inside glimpse
at an individual character that's priceless in choosing relationships and friendships in and out of
the workplace.
 Workplace gossip can be amusing and help to lighten moods and potentially improve
productivity, which can be beneficial particularly in high-stress work environments.
 Workplace gossip gets conversation going. People want to talk about what they're interested in,
and sometimes conversation isn't about work. It does, however, open the door to a certain
degree of ease to talk about work related problems in the future.
 Prevent awkward situation
 It can alert management t problems in the organization

Disadvantages

 Workplace gossip can lead to disorder, misunderstanding and miscommunication. It can also
generate a wrong impression of an employee and cause others not to want to work with them.
 Lost productivity and wastes time.
 Creates a hostile work environment.
 Workplace gossip can lead to feelings hurt. It can stir up unnecessary debate, intrude on
personal information, and generate resentment.
 Workplace gossip can release harmful productivity. It can have a negative effect on employee
morale, job performance and team building.

Beneficial

 Gossip helps in team building by creating cohesiveness.

  Gossip is a social skill that can become a positive force in our lives.
 Gossip helps us to understand our own abilities, shortcomings, and problems, and sets
parameters for our behavior.
 The primary functions of gossip are to inform, influence, entertain, enhance friendship,
reinforce moral standards, and help in making decisions.

Non- Beneficial
 Gossip is a leveler, particularly when it comes to the bad conduct or humiliating foibles of
someone popular. This kind of knowledge makes us all peers and prevents those who are more
popular from appearing "better than us."
 Privacy may be compromised if other patients learn the information when they are taking care
of their own problems

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