Impact of Neuroticism on Counterproductive Work Behavior and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating Role of Workplace Envy

Abstract

An unpleasant feeling known as "workplace envy" includes sentiments of inadequacy, sabotage, hostility, wrath based on the successes of others. To cope with such feelings today's enterprises, require updated abilities. The current study investigates the workplace envy as a mediator among neuroticism and CWB as well as neuroticism and OCB. Further, we examine the role of organizational ethical climate as a moderator. To evaluate the study's conceptual framework, nine hypotheses were formulated. Structural equation modeling (Spector et al.) is used to empirically analyze the impact of the constructs. Information was gathered from 323 individuals of educational institutions in Gujranwala division, Pakistan via stratified sampling. SPSS and AMOS were used for the data analysis. The goal of present research is to investigate and eliminate study gap on moderating factor of organizational ethical climate. The results reveal that neuroticism significantly impacts WE. Furthermore, workplace envy highly impacts CWB and OCB. Hence, this study is one of the few cross-sectional studies that investigating the workplace envy as a mediator in the educational sector of Pakistan. The study also suggested the future directions to the researchers.

Keywords: Workplace envy, neuroticism, CWB, OCB, organizational ethical climate, Social comparison theory