The Impact of Envy on Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Workplace Stress and Employee’s Productivity

Abstract

It has been one of the most important objectives for human resources of any organization to manage the emotional stability of their organization’s employees in order to create a successful competitive global environment. The degree of positive emotions within an employee gets higher with more positive organizational behavior whereas, negative emotions are somehow neglected which most commonly are found in employees. The competition in rewards, appraisals and compensations drives much animosity and ill feelings gives rise to employee envy. This study defines the impact of this negative emotion on job satisfaction, motivation and workplace stress. After collecting quantitative data from different companies by distributing different questionnaires to their employees. A strong positive relation has been found between envy and all the three aspects of employee job behavior.