The Impact of Machiavellianism and the Trustfulness of the Victim on Laboratory Theft

Harrell, W. Andrew; Hartnagel, Timothy F.

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“…within a group, high Machs tend to conceal their true nature while make the most of their exploitive skills), and theft (Harrell et al, 1976). Machiavellianism was also found to be negatively related to job satisfaction (Gemmill et al, 1972) and helping behavior (Wolfson, 1981).…”

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Do Narcissists and High Machs More Empowered? Assessing the Relationship between Machiavellianism and Narcissism, and Psychological Empowerment

Yazdi¹,

Mustamil²

2014

IJBM

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Given the abundant individual and organizational outcomes of empowerment, identifying employees who can be more empowered than others can be quite beneficial for organizations. The goal of this study was to test the relationship between both Narcissism and Machiavellianism, and psychological empowerment. To do so, 223 front-line service workers working in different industries in tertiary sector in Iran were selected and data was collected using self-reported questionnaire. The results indicated that by affecting three cognitions of impact, self-determination, and competence/self-efficacy, Narcissism positively relates to psychological empowerment. Despite the significant positive relationship between Machiavellianism and the cognition of impact, unexpectedly, no significant link between Machiavellianism and overall measure of psychological empowerment was found. This was attributed to significant negative relationship between Machiavellianism and empowerment's dimension of meaning. Identifying individual differences, such as Narcissism, which are positively related to empowerment can be tremendously useful during human resource selection. In other words, the result suggests that employing individuals with some degree of healthy Narcissism can be quite fruitful for the organizations especially those operating in the service sector.

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Section: Machiavellianism and Psychological Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 95%

Do Narcissists and High Machs More Empowered? Assessing the Relationship between Machiavellianism and Narcissism, and Psychological Empowerment

Yazdi¹,

Mustamil²

2014

IJBM

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“…It is an amoral approach that ignores the needs and rights of others and a general interpersonal strategy of employing devious, manipulative tactics (Calhoon, 1969;Robinson and Shaver, 1973) for personal gain . Machiavellians see nothing wrong with stealing (Harrell and Hartnagel, 1976), cheating (Flynn et al, 1987), or lying (Fletcher, 1990) in their own self-interest (Mudrack, 1993). They lean more toward decisions suggested by an unethical person than toward those proffered by an ethical individual (Wayne and Rubinstein, 1992).…”

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confidence: 95%

Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

Winter

Stylianou

Giacalone

2004

Journal of Business Ethics

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While information technologies present organizations with opportunities to become more competitive, unsettled social norms and lagging legislation guiding the use of these technologies present organizations and individuals with ethical dilemmas. This paper presents two studies investigating the relationship between intellectual property and privacy attitudes, Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology, and working in R&D and computer literacy in the form of programming experience. In Study 1, Machiavellians believed it was more acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Programmers and R&D workers considered violating intellectual property rights more acceptable. Programmers did not consider violating privacy rights more acceptable, but R&D workers did. Finally, there was an interaction between Machiavellianism, programming and R&D. Machiavellians who also had programming experience or worked in R&D found violations of intellectual property much more acceptable. The effect of Machiavellianism on attitudes toward violations of privacy was enhanced by working in R&D, but not by programming experience. In Study 2, idealists believed it was less acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Relativists found it more acceptable to violate intellectual property rights, though they did not consider it more acceptable to violate privacy rights. Those with programming experience were more accepting of intellectual property rights violations, but not of privacy violations. Finally, programming experience moderated the relationship between idealism, relativism and attitudes toward these unethical information practices. Implications for diminishing unethical behavior among Machiavellians, Relativists, programmers and those in R&D are discussed.

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“…Research has linked high Machiavellianism with a concern for selfishly driven profit maximization (Sakalaki et al 2007), greater likelihood to steal from others and violation of supervisory trust in order to steal (Fehr et al 1992;Harrell and Hartnagel 1976), a tendency to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others (Winter et al 2004), and ethical leader behavior (Den Hartog and Belschak 2012).…”

Section: Machiavellianismmentioning

confidence: 97%

Individual Ethical Orientations and the Perceived Acceptability of Questionable Finance Ethics Decisions

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Finance is an area that, in practice, is plagued by accusations of unethical activity; the study of finance had adopted a largely nonbehavioral approach to business ethics research. We address this gap in by assessing whether individual ethical orientations (moral identity, idealism, relativism, integrity, Machiavellianism) predict the acceptability of questionable decisions about financial issues. Results show that individual ethical orientations are associated with different levels of acceptability of questionable decisions about financial issues, though the pattern of these differences varies across individual ethical orientations assessed. These results represent evidence that ethical individual differences are associated with the acceptability of questionable finance decisions and are discussed in terms of methodological limitations and future directions in finance ethics research.

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The Impact of Machiavellianism and the Trustfulness of the Victim on Laboratory Theft

Cited by 76 publications

References 4 publications

Do Narcissists and High Machs More Empowered? Assessing the Relationship between Machiavellianism and Narcissism, and Psychological Empowerment

Do Narcissists and High Machs More Empowered? Assessing the Relationship between Machiavellianism and Narcissism, and Psychological Empowerment

Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

Individual Ethical Orientations and the Perceived Acceptability of Questionable Finance Ethics Decisions

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