The Impact of Gossip in Workplace on Job Procrastination

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the nature of the relationship between gossip in the workplace and job procrastination through a survey of the opinions of a sample of faculty members in private colleges in the holy province of Karbala. To achieve this goal, (260) questionnaires were distributed. The number of valid questionnaires subject to analysis was (253). After analyzing them statistically, the results of the research concluded that there is a correlation between gossip in the workplace and job procrastination, as well as the presence of a significant effect of gossip in the workplace on procrastination. On this basis, a number of conclusions and recommendations were developed, the most important of which is that the behavioral settings in the organization and the individual characteristics are considered the basis for the behavior of gossiping in the workplace, whose topics are either evaluation or comparison and are not determined by work, but may exceed it for personal aspects to penetrate privacy, as the role of individual tendency emerges In this nature of speech, the aggressive personality has more tendencies to gossip in a bad way than the isolated personality, as the latter tends to gossip out of obtaining information due to being isolated and occurring outside offices through chance meetings and the daily social interaction of organizational life.