امیرحسین سلیمانی نائینی

Today, the importance of the concept of people's privacy in the organization has increased and most employees will be annoyed if they face questions that have a nosy aspect. This study aims to identify the consequences of nosiness in the organization by emphasizing the dark side of curiosity. In the current research, the qualitative method and the thematic analysis were used to identify the consequences of nosiness in the organization. The participants of this research included nurses of medical centers in Isfahan province. Data were collected through 38 semi-structured interviews. By analyzing the data, 4 main categories and 11 sub-categories were identified as the consequences of nosiness in the organization from the nurses' perspective. The main categories are individual negative consequences (mental disorders and their symptoms, the emergence of negative emotions, lost productivity and wasted time, and psychological break from work), interpersonal negative consequences (decrease in interpersonal interactions and unhealthy interpersonal relationships), negative consequences organizational (The emergence of deviant behavior in the organization and unhealthy work environment) and individual positive consequences (better management of work shifts and people, benevolence and helping colleagues and increasing personal information and learning). The findings of this research showed that in addition to the extensive negative consequences of nosiness in the organization, it will also have positive consequences in the individual context. Finally, this research advises managers to prioritize the protection of privacy and strengthen the culture of respecting employees' boundaries to reduce the negative consequences of nosiness in the organization.