Article Critique: Envy and

Counterproductive Work Behavior: The

Moderation Role of Leadership in Public and
Private Organizations
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 Summary of Article
Introduction
• Focused on the relationship between envy and counterproductive work
behaviors
• Leadership and/or management can help eliminate the influences of envy
• The quality of relationship between employees and leaders is important
• leaders and managers can have low- and high-quality relationships with subordinates
 Summary of Article Cont’
Motivation behind the Study
• Research has mostly focused on how positive employee behaviors
eliminate CWB
• Little focus has been placed on negative employee behaviors such as envy
• Researchers aimed to fill this gap in order to understand the relationship
between CWB and envy
 Study Approach and Methods
• Cross-sectional study design
• Participants of the study
• Spanish employees (N = 225)
• Private organizations (N = 121)
• Public organizations (N = 104)
• Incidental purposive sampling
• Self-report questionnaires used to collect data
• Five-point Likert Scale
• Path analysis (regression analysis) used to test the developed hypotheses
• SPSS version 22 and AMOS version 22
 Study Approach and Methods Cont’
Hypotheses
• H1: Envy will be positively related to counterproductive work behaviors;
• H2: Leader-member exchange will moderate the relationship between
envy and CWB;
• H3: Leader-member exchange will moderate the relationship between
envy and CWB in public organizations. In private organizations, this
relationship will be attenuated or non-significant. In any case, the
occurrence of CWB will be lower when envious employees report higher
levels of LMX
 Results of the Study
• Envy positively relates to counterproductive work behavior
• Leader member exchange significantly moderates the relationship
between counterproductive work behavior and envy in public companies,
but not in private organizations
 Limitations of the Study
• Common error bias
• Did not perform multi-group analysis based in terms of gender
• No research question or objectives identified in the study
• Readers are left to infer the research question from the purpose of the study that the
researchers highlight
 Works Cited
• González-Navarro, Pilar et al. "Envy And Counterproductive Work
Behavior: The Moderation Role Of Leadership In Public And Private
Organizations". International Journal Of Environmental Research And
Public Health, vol 15, no. 7, 2018, p. 1455. MDPI AG,
doi:10.3390/ijerph15071455. Accessed 4 Aug 2019.