| dc.description.abstract | Rumors are common in most organizations, and any organization is affected by internal and external rumors. In the literature, rumors are often mentioned as having good and bad effects on organizations, but few scholars have explored the organizational functions of rumors in a clear-cut manner. The research is based on the three functional dimensions of organizational rumors (getting information, socialization, and cynic effect) summarized by Dagli & Han in 2018 and establishes a research framework based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model and introduces the concept of psychological safety as a mediator between organizational rumors and employee behaviors. The concept of psychological safety is introduced as a mediating factor between organizational rumors and employees′ behaviors, and how the three dimensions of organizational rumors stimulate employees′ behaviors and attitudes through their sense of psychological safety. In addition, while most domestic scholars focus on social contexts in the field of rumors, the research aims to investigate how rumors and their three functional dimensions in organizational contexts affect employees′ task performance and innovative behaviors, as well as to verify the psychological mechanisms that employees′ psychological safety plays in the process. The research, 173 questionnaires were collected from employees working in a company with a rumor environment. The data were collected using the intentional sampling method, and then analyzed using the statistical software JASP to test the hypothesis. The results of the research show that the negative effects of organizational rumors are indeed influenced by the psychological mechanism of psychological safety, which in turn reduces employees′ task performance and innovative behavior. | en_US |