Competition for resources, recognition, and favorable outcomes are all facts of life in professional settings. When one falls short in comparison to colleagues or subordinates, feelings of envy may arise. Fueled by inferiority, hostility and resentment, envy is both ubiquitous and painful. Will employees "level up" with their envied counterpart through self-improvement behaviors? Or will they "level down" through sabotage and undermine their peers and subordinates in the process?Envy at Work and in Organizations aims to determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies, psychoanalytical scholars emphasize unconscious processes, organizational psychologists describe groundbreaking research from disparate work settings, and cross-cultural psychologists reveal the variety of ways that envy can emerge as a function of cultures as wide-ranging as the Japanese school system to the fascinating structure of the Israeli kibbutzim. Work and insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included.Envy at Work and in Organizations is a valuable, distinctive resource for both scholars and practitioners looking to grasp the nature of envy. Edited by Richard H. Smith, Ugo Merlone, and Michelle K. Duffy, this volume will help readers understand the factors that help individuals and organizations overcome envy and transform it into something positive to promote workplace well-being.

IntroductionChapter 1: What is the Nature of Envy?Yochi Cohen-Charash and Elliott LarsonChapter 2: A Social-Contextual View of Envy in Organizations: From Both Enviers and Envied PerspectivesLingtao Yu and Michelle DuffyChapter 3: The Two Faces of Envy: Studying Benign and Malicious Envy in the WorkplaceChristopher M. Sterling, Niels van de Ven, and Richard H. SmithChapter 4: How Do People Respond to Threatened Social Status? Moderators of Benign versus Malicious EnvyJan Crusius and Jens LangeChapter 5: Envy as an Evolving EpisodeCharles E. Hoogland, Stephen Thielke, and Richard H. SmithChapter 6: Competent but Cold: The Stereotype Content Model and Envy in OrganizationsElizabeth Baily Wolf and Peter GlickChapter 7: A Social Network Perspective on Envy in OrganizationsTheresa Floyd and Christopher SterlingChapter 8: Envy, Schadenfreude and Evaluation: Understanding the Strange Growing of Individual Performance AppraisalBénédicte VidailletChapter 9: Envy and Its Dynamics in Groups and OrganizationsH. Shmuel ErlichChapter 10: The Othello Conundrum: The Inner Contagion of LeadershipMark SteinChapter 11: Culture and the Elicitation, Experience, and Expression of EnvyYi Wen Tan, Kenneth Tai, and Cynthia S. WangChapter 12: Envy and School Bullying in the Japanese Cultural ContextHidefumi Hitokoto and Masato SawadaChapter 13: 'Storms of Slander' - Relational Dimensions of 'Envy' in Java, IndonesiaThomas StodulkaChapter 14: The Behavioural Economics of Envy: What Can We Learn From It?Jérémy CelseChapter 15: Envy and Interpersonal Corruption: Social Comparison Processes and Unethical Behavior in OrganizationsJooa Julia Lee and Francesca GinoChapter 16: Envy and Injustice: Integration and RuminationsParesh Mishra, Stephen Whiting, and Robert FolgerChapter 17: Disposal Diapers, Envy and the Kibbutz: What Happens to an Emotion Based on Difference in a Society Based on Equality?Josh GresselChapter 18: Envy and Inequality in Romantic RelationshipsAaron Ben-Ze'evChapter 19: The Benefits and Threats from Being Envied in OrganizationsW. Gerrod ParrottChapter 20: Containing Workplace Envy: A Provisional Map of the Ways to Prevent or Channel Envy, and Reduce its DamageVittorio Annoni, Susanna Bertini, Mario Perini, Andrea Pistone, Serena Zucchi