IMPACT OF GOSSIP IN WORKPLACE ON JOB BURNOUT MEDIATED BY THE EMPLOYEE'S SILENCE

The research reviews the nature of the impact of gossip in the workplace, with its dimensions, on the dependent variable, job burnout, mediated by the employee’s silence with its dimensions, through analysing the relationship between the dimensions of the variables. The research aims to help the researched organization address job burnout. The research began with a problem that included questions, including (the extent of the researched organization’s interest in addressing the impact of Gossip) and the results showed this through the importance of the research. Using a questionnaire form, a purposive sample (all teachers) of (282) teachers was adopted in the College of Education for Human Sciences / University of Kerbala. At the same time, the statistical tools were represented by linear regression, correlation coefficient, structural equation modelling, and path analysis. Structuring the equation, a set of conclusions was obtained, the most important of which was (that increasing gossip in the workplace in the presence of employee silence leads to a high increase in employee burnout). The most important recommendation was (the need for the studied institution to work to reduce the level of gossip at work, burnout, and employee silence. Following the following administrative practices (development and training, empowerment, incentives and rewards, organizational justice, credibility, managing relations between employees, and administrative trust), not only setting codes of ethical behaviour and urging employees to adhere to them, as well as conducting educational guidance workshops and training courses on negative and deviant behaviours in a way In general and gossip in particular, about its dangers and causes on society and the institution studied.