Correlation Between Employee Piracy and Workplace Envy

Abstract

This descriptive study associated employee piracy and workplace envy. It has answered the general question: “What is the relationship between employee piracy and workplace envy?” A census of 18 respondents from the accounting and finance department of Company X with a mean age of 37.7778 (SD=7.75777) years, and has rendered a mean length of service of 2.3333 (SD=76696) formed the respondents of the present study. From the census of 18 employees, 5 of them were hired by being pirated from another company and the rest were hired through traditional means of employment. Questionnaires were administered to the employees of the abovementioned department and company, and an interview has been conducted with the CEO of the company for a qualitative follow-up of the quantitative data. Spearman’s Correlation was computed at a p=0.05 significance level. The test resulted to a correlation coefficient of r=.486, a value greater than p, which entails that the null hypothesis stating that there is square test was done to find out if the established relationship is significant and it has been found out that there is no significant relationship between employee piracy and workplace envy since the test resulted to a statistic of .557, which was less than the minimum expected count of 1.57. The qualitative data of the study describes the process of piracy as it is done in their company and it has been found out that offering higher compensation, greater benefits, and more avenues for career growth were used to entice the pre-selected employees from other companies. Furthermore, managerial positions are offered to pirated employees. It has also been found out that there has been an incident of conflict in the company due to envy' in the workplace. Also, the management perceives the employees who were hired through traditional means of recruitment as underdogs to the employees hired by being pirated. The employees in Company X were said to have manifested negative attitude toward the success of their pirated co-worker, but have not manifested positive attitude toward tire failure of their pirated co-worker.