Are You a Good Citizen?

Gossip is the tool that we use to sort of keep people in. There's a growing interest in gossip as a form of informalcommun on particularly for researches who are interested in looking at the nadark side of organizations and the under belly of organizational life. If you look at transcripts of public inquiries into scandals, whether it's in health care or banking,. It's not uncommon for people to say, well, it was common knowledge that am or everybody knew"