When does an employee not help coworkers? The effect of leader–member exchange on employee envy and job satisfaction

in today’s highly competitive business world, job satisfaction and productivity are of paramount importance. The effects of leader-member exchange when employees work as an interactive team, has a great effect on job satisfaction and productivity. Workplace envy is one of the factors that might affect job satisfaction. This research examines the mediating role of employee envy between leader-member exchange and job satisfaction.

using standard questionnaires, we examined the opinion of a sample of 141 employees of Port and Marine Organization of Bushehr province. For data analysis we used factor analysis (exploratory and confirmatory), and structural equation modeling.

supervisors can do a better job decreasing employees’ emotional burden. if envy can be controlled and managed effectively, positive interaction of leader-member exchange, increases job satisfaction.

the results show direct effect of LMX on job satisfaction. The higher-quality LMX relationship, the more job satisfaction. The results show that employee envy has no effect on job satisfaction and other factors regardless of envy may cause job satisfaction. The result also shows that LMX has a strong effect on employee envy.