Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Perceived Organizational Justice in the Effect of Envy on Employees' Creative Behavior

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of envy on employees' creative behaviors. In this regard, the mediating role of employees` intrinsic motivation and the moderating role of perceived organizational justice were considered as well. The statistical population of the present study included all employees of Oghab Afshan Manufacturing and Industrial Company, of which a random sample of 280 employees participated in the study. Research data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed by structural equation modeling with SPSS and LISREL software. Findings showed that the feeling of envy affects the creative behaviors of employees through the effect it has on the intrinsic motivation of employees, so that this effect is different for different types of envy. So that, malicious envy prevents employees from participating in creative behaviors by reducing their intrinsic motivation, but benign envy has a positive effect on their creative behaviors by increasing employees' intrinsic motivation. In addition, the moderating role of employees' perceptions of organizational justice in the relationship between envy and intrinsic motivation was not confirmed.