Designing and Testing a Model of some Antecedents and Outcomes of Workplace Envy

The purpose of this study was designing and testing a model of some antecedents and outcomes of workplace envy. The participants of the study were 304 employees of NISOC, in Ahvaz (215 male; 74 females) that were selected by stratified random sampling method. The instruments which used in this study were workplace envy, leader-member exchange (LMX), core self-evaluation (CSE) prosocial behavior, social undermining, and moral disengagement questionnaires. The fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-23 and AMOS-23 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the bootstrap procedure in Preacher and Hayes (2008) SPSS Macro program. Findings indicated that the proposed model fit the data and all hypotheses have been confirmed. Effect of leader-member exchange (LMX) and core self-evaluation (CSE) on workplace envy and effect of workplace envy on prosocial behavior, social undermining, and moral disengagement were significant. Moral disengagement also mediated the relationship between workplace envy and social undermining.