EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE ENVY AND EMPLOYEE WELLBEING

Abstract

This research study is about the relationship between employee envy and employee wellbeing. Envy is negative feeling when an employee feels about other employee superiority, success, and reward and wishes that for himself/herself. Wellbeing is positive or good behaviours and attitudes of employees’ towards each other in an organization. This study aims to find that employees envy and employees wellbeing are related and to explore that how employees envy affect the employee wellbeing about organization. This study is qualitative in nature and survey research methodology is used while data have been collected by interviews that are semi-structured. For analysis of data collected, researcher has used the thematic analysis technique. Results obtained from the thematic analysis showed that employees envy is negatively related to wellbeing of employees and organization. In this study one aspect of employees wellbeing is explored, therefore, it is recommended that other aspects of the same construct could be investigated in future research. Relationship of employees envy and wellbeing can be studied with psychological concepts such as self-esteem of employees, citizenship behaviour of employees regarding organization, skepticism, narcissism and like concepts. Such studies may assist in exploring strength of relationship between envy and wellbeing of employees.

Keywords: Employees envoy, employees’ wellbeing, malicious, benign, semi-structured interview, thematic analysis.