Introduction Gossiping is one of the major persistent activities in organizations but it rarely gets enough attention from the organization’s behavior analysts. It is very common to find people gossiping with their friends, neighbors, relatives, and colleagues during their leisure time keeping in mind that the media also has had a lot of influence on this. 1 In most workplaces, gossip seems to be merely part of the communication network that is categorically known as informal. Gossip is a very important phenomenon requiring serious attention and study, therefore, analyzing its most important aspects in the social circles of a work environment in an organization. Professional standards are to be maintained especially when it comes to communication within an organization. All organizations have an existing informal organization in addition to the already known and existing formal system. Grapevine being a medium of transmission through which members of an organization communicate informally is a prime channel through which gossips and rumors are spread. In most instances, the grapevine spreads rumors and gossips and this affects the functionality of an organization. 2 Rumors and gossips are part of the interaction that takes place amongst people and they have the potential to cause a lot of damage and also benefit the organization. On the other hand rumors and gossips are means through which human beings communicate and they are prevalent in most organizational sets ups and they come as no surprise. An unknown author classified rumors into four categories which included; fear rumors, wish rumors, anticipatory rumors, and aggressive rumors. 3 There are also two approaches researched previously that have been identified in handling the issue of gossip and they include a group level and an individual level approach. The common understanding of gossip is it involves idle talk, scandals, and malicious tales which are informally communicated concerning individuals in a social setup. Reasons why people gossip First and foremost people involve themselves with gossiping so that they can fit into certain self-defined social classes by giving certain information one is seen as the more knowledgeable on all the daily occurrences. Others also gossip for their entertainment as this gives them personal satisfaction and bringing a lot of amusement as they probe for news and also confirm the news that they probably have heard. Mostly such people do it for their pleasure and leisure rather than focusing on the market position. 4 People also gossip so that they can perpetuate and maintain themselves as a group as this promotes oneness in the maintenance of the group’s values and morals. Through this unity, there is the facilitation of the regulation and control of individuals aspiring to join the group and the other competing cliques. People need to belong and thus they gossip to seek membership in these reference groups thereby having values and standards for comparison with other people. 5 The maintenance of the group values prevents situations whereby if they are violated in any way there will be an opportunity for the spread of judgmental information concerning the perpetrators. On the other hand, gossip acts as a very important channel for an invariable reaffirmation