What are the antecedents and consequences of the social emotion of "Envy" in a sales department performance? Previous studies have shown the importance of emotions in sales context. This paper studies the social emotion of 'Envy' to scrutinize its outcomes in sales department. Borrowing from different theoretical framework such as emotion theory, equity theory, goal attainment theory and self-evaluation maintenance theory we argue that whenever salespeople perceive injustice (interactional, procedural, and distributive), the negative emotion 'envy' may exist, also if salespeople perceive themselves as to be inferior compare to their colleagues as a result of a continuous self-evaluating process, the social emotion of envy may be observed.
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