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.
