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Dispositional Malicious Envy and Workplace Deviance: Divergent Thinking as a Mediator

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  • Umer Hussain
  • Inga Mohr

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In the extant scholarship, researchers have claimed that malicious envy has a significant relationship with workplace deviance. Nevertheless, there remains a dearth of scholarship detailing how employees can display workplace deviance in an organizational context without being caught. This study aims to examine an association between dispositional malicious envy and workplace deviance, mediated by divergent thinking through the lens of social comparison theory. Data was collected via a cross-sectional survey from employees ( N  = 363) working in Pakistan’s banking and telecom sector. The study results reveal that dispositional malicious envy can lead to workplace deviance via the divergent thinking mediation effect. This study adds to the limited scholarship about how dispositional malicious envy relates to workplace deviance in the organizational setting, particularly when employees make lateral comparisons.

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  • Umer Hussain & Inga Mohr, 2023. "Dispositional Malicious Envy and Workplace Deviance: Divergent Thinking as a Mediator," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(4), pages 21582440231, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:13:y:2023:i:4:p:21582440231200310
    DOI: 10.1177/21582440231200310
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