Grapevine Communication

One thing everyone knows is when people gossip and the press gets a hold on a story, the story won’t be straight and it will be a distortion of the truth. Both can be manipulating, false advertised, and one-sided. Also, both can be just as bad as the other. It depends on your situation.

“How to Fight a Rumor” by Jesse Signal is an essay that gives information about rumors and how to fight them. The essay uses research from rumor researchers and gives different examples of how people deal with rumors. It also views rumors on a psychological level and looks into why people spread them. In the essay, Jesse Signal informs the reader why people spread rumors, how to fight rumors, and gives examples of how people deal with rumors.

It is an opportunity for an employee to respond to any issues discussed and to request any development requests they may have or any suggestions to improve the department or team. It also gives the employee a chance to feedback to the manager any concerns or issues they may have about the way they are being managed.

In the op-ed “Truth is in the Ear of the Beholder”, columnist Gregory Rodriguez explores the ways rumors form in accordance to our beliefs and anxieties, in order to bring light to society’s hypocritical and biased acceptance or rejection of rumors and conspiracy theories. Rodriguez argues that rumors only thrive in the minds of people who are willing to believe them. He then goes on to state that those who start rumors rely on the current beliefs and biases of their intentional audience.

The reason that these yellow presses can spread rumours so quickly is because people at that time don’t know that the “truth” they tell are not exactly what happened. People don’t know anything about it so it

In conclusion, people should not start a rumor unless all the facts are true. One should not take what one hears from someone else and tell another something different. When someone tells another person something, he could perceive it as truth or a work of

People will even spread rumors without even knowing they’re doing it. An article mentioned that, “59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked.” This means someone will see an interesting link and send it to another person without even looking into whether or not it’s authentic. The rest of the article gives tips on how to spot sham articles, but of course you must actually read them in order to find out if they’re fake. The simplest way to prevent the spread of false news is to not share an article, or anything for that matter, if you haven’t read it. Once again this relates to the way people listened to Abigail without actually looking into her claims to see whether or not their might be obvious

News sources long to be the first one to put their story on the front page of every iPhone, Android, and app pop-ups. Not even giving it a second thought to if the story was a hundred percent accurate. Sadly, and our fast-paced society trust and accuracy is a rare commodity acquired by only the few who are willing to listen to both sides of a story. Even though rumors has no value, the stories themselves are hard not to listen to and even harder not to incorporate in our daily conversations. Rumors are a insignificant social phenomenon that constitute to no man's

Unfortunately, my office setting does not vary from those classic lyrics. The text calls the grapevine informal, yet important source of information (Robbins & Judge, 2009). There are two misconceptions I had about the grapevine idea: essentially 75% of information received by the grapevine is true information (Robbins & Judge, 2009) and gossip is rarely the source of rumors (Robbins & Judge, 2009). The interesting part of the grapevine that is particularly applicable to the situation I described is that “rumors emerge as a response to situations that are important to us, when there is ambiguity, and under conditions that around anxiety,” (Robbins & Judge, 2009). The mid-shift change of staff announcement was particularly ill-timed because the project was not approved, nor were dates set for the approval; the pilot project announcement was ambiguous. This set a motion for anxiety. The common theme with my co-workers was rumors around who was keeping his/her job and who was being let go, with many people speculating who was being fired. This rumor was damaging not only to my co-workers who were considered “the outgroup” (Robbins & Judge, 2009), but also to respect for the

This method allows for employees to share in the decision making process. This allows for their voice to be hear, learn from others, and begin making managerial team decisions.

I think that some of the best information is heard through the grapevine even if it’s not the best news or information but some part of the information has to be true or else it wouldn’t have been passed down. An example of where information that was passed through the grapevine was job openings for a certain position within Nationwide Insurance. Although the rumors came from those who already knew about the positions such as managers and employees already working in that department, there still wasn’t any time frame on when the hiring was going to take place and how many positions were open. I know for me I

We will perhaps eventually ruin our professional status if we get trapped up in mongering rumor and gossip (Anonymous, 1995). We may harm our career and also the organization’s future (Anonymous, 1995). As an advice, we shall never expose private and confidential information, besides preventing from contradicting or agreeing any hearsays (Anonymous, 1995).

In the excerpts provided from DiFonzo’s book “The Watercooler Effect” provides the reader with the overarching idea that it is apart of human nature to be involved with rumors. The book asserts that even though rumors can help make sense of an uncertain world, it also can cause majors issues. According to Difonzo it can increase distrust between members of different political parties, or groups. Ruin one 's reputation and close off any opportunity for open mindedness. The writer also goes into why does one choose to believe some rumors and cast away others, also tying in the idea of how important it is to check the facts. DiFonzo ends his book by restating that a lot of these ideas are produced by uncertainty in experience. He explains that the reason for the lack of known fact is society 's failure to search for it, but goes on to say even with the

“George W. Allport and Leo Postman, constructed experiments on how the content of rumors changes as the rumor passes from person to person. They concluded that as a rumor travels, it tends to grow shorter, more concise and more easily told: In subsequent versions [of rumor] more and more original details are leveled out, fewer words are used and fewer items are mentioned… As the leveling of detail proceeds, the remaining details are necessarily sharpened.” (Doorley and Gracia 398)

In today's 24/7 multimedia, twitter feed, world it is possible for us all to have information from all kinds of sources. An illustration was the witch Hunt of Tim Hunt. Who colluded with it: the BBC, who exposed it? It was Brietbart's @Nero who took on the lynch mob, the Daily Mail who investigated the source, and latterly Louise Mensch who filled in the gaps of the sordid treatment of a Nobel prize winner.