Series 3, Episode 17: Is it ok to be nosy, or should I just mind my own business? with Professor Richard Currie, Boston University

Research has consistently found that maintaining a healthy balance between work and other areas of life often requires people to establish and maintain boundaries those various areas. Yet as humans we might also be curious or indeed nosy about the people we are working with or who might be working for us – if only just to find out a little bit more about them. But what actually is nosiness and when might that be perceived to have gone too far?

To explore the question of nosiness I am delighted to be joined by Professor Richard Currie.

About our guest…

Dr. Richard Currie is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology in the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University.

Dr. Currie’s research interests center around work-related social stressors and the implications that employees’ responses to these stressors have on critical organizational knowledge management outcomes such as knowledge sharing and counterproductive knowledge hiding behaviors.

You can find out more about Richard’s work at these links:

• Google Scholar – https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qqxawt8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
• Boston University – https://www.bu.edu/hospitality/profile/richard-a-currie/
• LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/racurrie/

Some of the articles discussed in the interview include the following:

• Currie, R. A., Achyldurdyyeva, J., Guchait, P., & Lee, J. (2024). For my eyes only: The effect of supervisor nosiness on knowledge sharing behavior among restaurant workers. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 120, 103770.
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278431924000823?via%3Dihub
• Currie, R. A., & Ehrhart, M. G. (2025). Mind Your Own Business: Developing and Validating the Workplace Nosiness Scale. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-24.
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-025-10018-7

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