2010
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0689-5
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Corporate Psychopaths, Bullying and Unfair Supervision in the Workplace

Abstract: Corporate Psychopaths, bullying, ethics, toxic leadership, abusive supervision,

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“…Other studies have linked high Machiavellianism to a tendency to engage in counterproductive work behaviors, which includes harmful interpersonal acts similar to abuse (Dahling et al, 2009), and bullying at work (Pilch and Turska, 2015). Leader psychopathy has been negatively related to individual consideration (Westerlaken and Woods, 2013), and positively associated with corporate misbehavior (Clarke, 2005), workplace bullying, and unfair supervision (Boddy, 2011). For narcissists a more nuanced picture seems to arise from the literature.…”
Section: Dark Triad Traits and Their Relationship With Abusive Supervmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other studies have linked high Machiavellianism to a tendency to engage in counterproductive work behaviors, which includes harmful interpersonal acts similar to abuse (Dahling et al, 2009), and bullying at work (Pilch and Turska, 2015). Leader psychopathy has been negatively related to individual consideration (Westerlaken and Woods, 2013), and positively associated with corporate misbehavior (Clarke, 2005), workplace bullying, and unfair supervision (Boddy, 2011). For narcissists a more nuanced picture seems to arise from the literature.…”
Section: Dark Triad Traits and Their Relationship With Abusive Supervmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Stout considers sociopaths as having no conscience and, consequently, having no limits on their behavior, other than avoiding a context that would reduce their ability to do what they please and feel no responsibility or obligation to anyone except themselves. Boddy preferred the term psychopath (Boddy, 2005(Boddy, , 2011a(Boddy, , 2011b.…”
Section: Social Intelligencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their strategies are to charm superiors; charm, manipulate or tolerate peers; abuse and manipulate subordinates (Boddy, 2011a). Other traits include; callousness, irresponsibility, impulsiveness, ability to make persuasive arguments, poor decision-making and poor performance.…”
Section: Corporate Psychopathymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Citing the instance of the Enron scandal, Boddy (2011b) theorizes that corporate psychopaths are principally responsible for the unethical practices that led to the global financial crises in the late 2000s. Large scale Ponzi schemes, frauds, embezzlements (Babiak et al, 2010) and several counterproductive workplace outcomes (Boddy, 2011a;Mathieu et al, 2014;Wellons, 2012) are credited to the sinister presence of corporate psychopaths.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%