Abstract: Employees are emotional beings. Therefore, it is difficult to suppress the emotions of an employee throughout the work time, though it is sometimes intentionally required. Naturally negative emotions in the workplace are neglected even though positive emotions tend to get reinforced with ease. In addition, emotional engagement is also an important topic in management and psychological literature. People who are engaged in their jobs are driven by enthusiasm and pride towards the job. Even though there are various factors which directly influence emotional engagement, this research focuses only on envy as an emotion and its impact on emotional engagement as envy is a factor which has received less scholarly attention. Therefore, this study presents envy that is one of the rampant negative emotions in the workplace and its impact on emotional engagement. The study was conducted on a sample...........
Keywords: Emotions, Envy, Emotional Engagement
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