Abstract Although jealousy is one of the most frequent emotions felt by employees at workplace with far-reaching consequences, empirical research understanding this discrete emotion remains scant, especially in frontline services. Drawing on justice theory, this research investigates the unexplored mediating…
Tag: workplace behavior
How does witnessing coworker ostracism differentially elicit victim-directed help and enacted ostracism: The mediating roles of compassion and schadenfreude, moderated by dispositional envy
Abstract This study examines the differential effects of observed ostracism on observers’ victim-directed helping behaviors and their own enactment of ostracism, as informed by their dispositional envy. In particular, we examined two distinctive paths that explain the observers’ congruent (compassion)…