Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Employee’s Position

Management is aware that unfounded rumors can cause unnecessary anxiety among employees and that such anxiety hurts the morale of the organization. Management also knows that rumors can sometimes be malicious and that innocent employees can be hurt. Management will do what it can to prevent harm to employees.

In order to be successful, however, management needs the help and support of every employee.

What might you do to help management? And, more important, what might you do to help yourself? Here are six suggestions.

1. Admit that there is such a phenomenon as a rumor mill in your organization. If you are blind to this situation, you may introduce and transmit harmful rumors to others without knowing it.

2. All information received ...