Have you ever envied a co-worker? It is human, but it’s unproductive. Envy is “the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on,” writes William Shakespeare in “Othello.”
I just read “Envy at Work,” a piece in the April issue of the Harvard Business Review by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson. In a study they cite, researchers asked a group of managers at a company to review two sets of plans and told them they had a $10,000 budget to allocate. They told the managers that one set of plans came from an external source and the other from an internal source.
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