Conclusion

Abstract

Having reached the end of this book, I hope to have shed some light on a dark side of how some contemporary organizations work. There is no glory in envy: when it develops in an organization, it reveals that our behavior at work is conditioned by immature psychological processes. I have, in this book, put emphasis on the fact that organizations’ management systems do play a role in either reinforcing or minimizing it. Some human resource management techniques, as we have seen, even seem to be based on the exploitation of human beings’ propensity to fall back into infantile patterns such as those associated with envy, while at the same time dissimulating this dimension under a rhetoric of autonomy, excellence, emulation, etc.