Links between Gossip and Employee Demographic Characteristics in Organization: Case of Employee Attitude

The research presents the concept of gossiping inside organizations and substantiates some demographic characteristics' impact on gossiping. The research focuses on statistical data of research participants' age, gender, educational background and tenure. The research methods used for data collection were analysis of scientific literature; written survey using a closed-ended questionnaire. The authors used such data analysis methods as descriptive statistics, comparative analysis. The research data were analysed using statistical methods: Student's t-test or ANOVA (respectively when there are 2 samples Student's t-test when there are 3 or more samples - ANOVA); Kruskal-Wallis (analogue to ANOVA test). The main results showed that revealed that gossip perception, prevalence, and lack of information are overall similar between men and women and do not differ by gender; however, the difference is noticed while comparing data by age and tenure. (c) 2022 Remigijus Bubnys, Inga Izdonaite-Medziuniene, Monika Chmieliauskaite, Mario Cruz.