Peer-Influenced Organizational Exit: An Examination of its Relationship With Workplace Jealousy and Envy

• In Event: ICA Plenary Interactive Paper/Poster Session and Reception
  In Interactive Paper Session: Organizational Communication Interactive Poster Session

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of organizational exit by developing a measure of peer-influenced exit tactics and examining their relationships with organizational exit, and the experiences of workplace jealousy and envy. A pool of 20 items describing the messages and behaviors organizational members use to encourage their peer coworkers to voluntarily exit the organization were developed and factor analyzed. Four dimensions, representing prosocial, antisocial, hostile communication, and equivocal tactics, emerged. Results revealed that peer-influenced exit tactics play a role in the voluntary exit of peer coworkers and are associated with workplace jealousy and envy.

Authors

• Michael Sollitto, Texas A and M Corpus Christi

• Rebecca M. Chory, West Virginia U

• Keith David Weber, West Virginia U