A Study On The Influence Mechanism Of Workplace Envy On Helping Behavior

Envy is widespread in every corner of social interaction,and often occurs when comparing with others and not as good as others.With the increasing competition in society,people pay more and more attention to the advantages and disadvantages of envy.While most research has focused on the negative effects of workplace envy as destructive and pervasive,some scholars have recently begun to look at the positive effects of envy and explore its beneficial consequences.Employee helping behavior is a common prosocial behavior in organizations.It is the behavior that employees voluntarily make to benefit the organization and others,which is of great significance to the growth and development of organizations.Previous studies on the relationship between workplace envy and helping behavior have not reached an agreed conclusion,so the relationship between the two is still to be clarified.Based on the above realistic and theoretical background,this study puts forward a double-edged sword mechanism model of workplace envy on helping behavior based on moral compensation theory and social identity theory.Based on moral compensation theory,this study chose the shame characterization of envy for helping behavior in the workplace to promote road,at the same time based on the social identity theory,select "interpersonal alienation" characterization of envy for helping behavior in the workplace inhibit road,built in shame for promoting mechanism and interpersonal alienation as inhibition mechanism of double mediation model,This paper discusses the influence mechanism of workplace envy on helping behavior from positive and negative perspectives.In addition,moral identity and organizational identity are introduced as moderating variables of the two pathways,respectively,to explore their strengthening effect on positive mediation path and weakening effect on negative mediation path.This study adopts the method of questionnaire survey,taking the employees of enterprises as the main research object,and collects data at two points,2-3 weeks between time point 1 and time point 2.Finally,271 questionnaires are collected.By using SPSS24.0and MPlus7.4 software for analysis,the final results show that:(1)There was a significant dual mediating effect between workplace envy and helping behavior,which was formed by shame and interpersonal alienation.The mediating effect of shame was positive(before and after the path was positive),and the mediating effect of interpersonal alienation was negative(the path in the first half was positive,and the path in the second half was negative).(2)Moral identity positively moderated the relationship between workplace envy and shame.(3)Organizational identity negatively moderated the relationship between workplace envy and interpersonal alienation.Based on moral compensation theory and social identity theory,this study explores and verifies the dual-path mechanism of workplace envy’s influence on employees’ helping behavior,pens the black box between them,and expands the theoretical system of workplace envy.This study for the first time introduces moral compensation theory and the social identity theory into the discussion of the relationship between envy and helping behavior and expands the application scope of moral compensation theory and the social identity theory.At the same time,this study verified the moderating effects of moral identity and organizational identity,and expanded the boundary conditions of envy,which has certain theoretical value.In practice,it can help organizations face up to the pros and cons of workplace envy,and maximize the effect of envy by improving employees’ moral awareness and reducing interpersonal alienation.Finally,the shortcomings of the study and the prospects for future research are presented.