Dark personality, job performance ratings, and the role of political skill: An indication of why toxic people may get ahead at work

Templer, Klaus J.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.030

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“…Thus, individuals with self‐entitlement and strong political skills can adjust themselves more effectively and efficiently rather than lack of political skills and narcissism trait. On the other hand, the study reveals that individuals with a high level of psychopathy and political skills are more social and ethical to govern a society 78 …”

Section: Theory and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Dark tetrad personality traits and counterproductive work behavior among doctors in Pakistan

Murad

Shahzad

et al. 2020

Health Planning & Management

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Summary The purpose of this article is to identify the effects of dark tetrad personality traits (such as narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and sadism) on counterproductive work behavior with the mediating role of psychological contract breach and the moderating effect of political skills. Previous researches have focused on the direct effect of the dark triad to measure the counterproductive work behavior of individuals. Recently, everyday sadism has been added to the dark triad and become dark tetrad personality traits. Therefore, this study examines the dark tetrad personality traits to study counterproductive work behavior. This study applied structural equation modeling using partial least square to test the hypotheses on a sample of 400 doctors from the health sector of Pakistan. The results of this study reveal that dark tetrad has a positive and significant effect on counterproductive work behavior, and psychological contract breach significantly partially mediates in the relationship between dark tetrad and counterproductive work behavior. Furthermore, findings show that the moderating effect of political skills also positively and significantly strengthening the link between dark tetrad and the psychological contract breach. The conclusion of this study is made an innovative contribution to the Pakistan health sector, researchers and policy makers to designing the relevant practical implications.

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Section: Theory and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Dark tetrad personality traits and counterproductive work behavior among doctors in Pakistan

Murad

Shahzad

et al. 2020

Health Planning & Management

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“…We elaborate and empirically test its implications for vocational careers. Whereas Templer (2018) recently suggested that, akin to mimicry-deception theory (Jones, 2014), dark personalities get ahead via reputation building, Templer tested only the camouflage hypothesis with reference to task and team performance. Looking through the lens of vocational career politics (Inkson, 2004), the next important step is to analyze the reputation for successful career behavior as an important driver of career success (Blickle, Schneider, Liu, & Ferris, 2011).…”

Section: Political Skill Camouflages Machiavellianism: Career Role Pementioning

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Political skill camouflages Machiavellianism: Career role performance and organizational misbehavior at short and long tenure

Blickle

Kückelhaus

Kranefeld

et al. 2020

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…This may pose a problem for women, since impression management is an essential skill to advance in one's career (Templer, 2018).…”

Section: Male and Female Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A possible contribution of this study is the evidence that women in leadership positions scored well in the Task and Situational styles (in the assessment of both female and male followers). This situation could be detrimental to women when it comes to promotions, since relationship is essential to reaching leadership positions, as shown by Templer, 2018. A further qualitative study would be in order to gather representations of evaluation differences, since they can only be situational if they are not biological, according to Tinsley and Ely (2018). This possibility reinforces the notion of a glass ceiling posed by Northouse (2016) and Pfeffer (2015) and the cognitive biases of evaluators, which can prevail in their choices (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2019).…”

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Leadership styles: perceived differences between male and female leaders in the fields of finance and accounting

2020

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The purpose of this study is to identify how accounting and finance professionals perceive the leadership styles adopted by their male and female leaders. In order to analyze the hypothesis that there are differences in leadership styles between men and women, a bibliographical review of leadership style and contingency theories was carried out. For the data collection, an electronic survey was carried out, using an adapted version of the EAEG (Escala de Avaliação do Estilo Gerencial) scale proposed by Melo (2004), totaling 278 valid responses. Although the general hypothesis has been rejected, the results indicate that women still face differences in their chances of assuming leadership positions.

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Dark personality, job performance ratings, and the role of political skill: An indication of why toxic people may get ahead at work

Cited by 54 publications

References 51 publications

Dark tetrad personality traits and counterproductive work behavior among doctors in Pakistan

Dark tetrad personality traits and counterproductive work behavior among doctors in Pakistan

Political skill camouflages Machiavellianism: Career role performance and organizational misbehavior at short and long tenure

Leadership styles: perceived differences between male and female leaders in the fields of finance and accounting

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