Beyond the Bright Side: Dark Personality at Work

Harms, Peter D.; Spain, Seth M.

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“…In addition, our review indicated several trends, including increasing attention to so‐called “dark side” traits such as narcissism and psychopathology (Akhtar, Ahmetoglu, & Chamorro‐Premuzic, ; Mathieu & St‐Jean, ), which are attracting increasing interest in personality research in general (Harms & Spain, ; Schyns, ). Another trend are studies of individual differences in cognition and abilities such as entrepreneurs’ cognitive style and practical intelligence (Armstrong & Hird, ; Baum, Bird, & Singh, ).…”

Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 89%

Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction

2016

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This article provides a narrative review of psychology of entrepreneurship research published in leading psychology journals, based on which we develop an organising framework for future psychological contributions to this field. Furthermore, we introduce the manuscripts collected in this special issue. Our review identified five research areas, broadly corresponding with basic psychological domains, namely personal differences; careers; health and well-being; cognition and behaviour; and leadership; as well as three cross-cutting themes: gender issues; genetic and biological foundations; and context. With the aim to stimulate integration across different approaches and disciplines, we propose a framework to understand how psychologists can offer innovative contributions to the multi-disciplinary entrepreneurship literature. This includes a focus on the entrepreneur embedded in and in interaction with his or her immediate and wider context; attention to different types of entrepreneurs; and a focus on dynamic within-person processes evolving over time.

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Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

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Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction

2016

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“…In 2002, Paulhus and Williams coined the term Dark Triad for the traits narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, this article to Kathleen Otto at: Philipps which are not founded on the Big Five (Harms and Spain 2015) and share a callous core (Furnham et al 2013). This led to an increased interest in these negative traits and to the original paper being cited more than 2500 times to date.…”

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“…Therefore, research addressing narcissism and the role of professional field should include these fields, as well. Furthermore, depending on the professional field, shortand long-term impression management could potentially mediate the effects of narcissism facets on career success (Harms and Spain 2015;Paulhus 1998).…”

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Career success in the University setting: Examining the role of narcissism facets

2020

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The purpose of this research is to examine the association of narcissism facets with subjective and objective career success, as well as the impact of the professional field. Data from 282 employees of a German universityboth scientists and administrative staffwho completed an online survey were analysed. Results showed a significant negative relationship between vulnerable narcissism and career success. The associations of the grandiose narcissism subfacets: grandiose exhibitionism and entitlement/ exploitativeness, as well as vulnerable narcissism with subjective career success were affected by professional field. However, leadership/authority, the remaining subfacet of grandiose narcissism, was not associated with career success.

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“…Krasikova, Green, & LeBreton, 2013) -is characterized by a lack of empathy and feelings of remorse, as well as a reckless and manipulative interpersonal style (Cleckley, 1941). Most recent research on the role of the Dark Triad traits in the work context focuses on sub-clinical levels and gradual differences of the traits rather than on the clinical extremes (see for instance Harms & Spain, 2015;Spain, Harms, & LeBreton, 2014). Importantly, the follower role provides specific opportunities to express Dark Triad traits and these behavioral expressions differ from, for example, the trait expression of leaders.…”

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Shady Strategic Behavior: Recognizing Strategic Followership of Dark Triad Followers

Schyns

Wisse

Sanders

2019

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The importance of strategic behavior in organizations has long been recognized. However, so far the literature has primarily focused on leaders' strategic behavior, largely ignoring followers' strategic behavior. In the present paper, we take a follower trait perspective to strategic follower behavior, specifically focusing on how followers' Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) influence their strategic behavior. We argue that Dark Triad related strategic follower behavior is likely to have negative effects for fellow organizational members and the organization as a whole. We also present 'red flag' behaviors that may signal followers' tendencies to engage in shady strategic behaviors. Then, we put forward factors that may mitigate or increase the occurrence of shady strategic behaviors of followers scoring high on Dark Triad traits, focusing especially on leader attributes and specifics of the organizational context. Finally, we discuss if and how followers' Dark Triad traits could benefit the organization, and highlight emerging issues in research on strategic follower behavior.

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Beyond the Bright Side: Dark Personality at Work

Cited by 75 publications

References 41 publications

Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction

Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction

Career success in the University setting: Examining the role of narcissism facets

Shady Strategic Behavior: Recognizing Strategic Followership of Dark Triad Followers

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