Leader Narcissism Predicts Malicious Envy and Supervisor-Targeted Counterproductive Work Behavior: Evidence from Field and Experimental Research

By Susanne Braun, Niluefer Aydin, Dieter Frey, Claudia Peus. 2018

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Building on the emotion-centered model of voluntary work behavior, this research tests the relations between leader narcissism, followers’ malicious and benign envy, and supervisor-targeted counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Results across five studies (i.e., one pilot study (N = 50), two experimental studies (N = 74 and 50), and two field surveys (N = 365 and 100) indicate that leader narcissism relates positively to followers’ negative emotions (i.e., malicious envy), which in turn mediates the positive relation between leader narcissism and supervisor-targeted CWB. Proposed negative relations between leader narcissism and positive emotions (i.e., benign envy) were only partly supported. Our findings advance the understanding of envy and the detrimental impact of leader narcissism on organizational functioning.

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• Narcissistic leadership and behavioral cynicism in the hotel industry: the role of employee silence and negative workplace gossiping (2020, background): “Although there is an overlap between narcissistic leadership behaviors and abusive supervision in terms of abuse of power (Braun et al., 2018), narcissistic leaders normally do not use the same techniques as the typical abusive leader, such as public humiliation, shouting, bullying and aggression…”