Corporate Psychopaths, Conflict, Employee Affective Well-Being and Counterproductive Work Behaviour

By C. Boddy. 2014

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This article explains who Corporate Psychopaths are, and some of the processes by which they stimulate counterproductive work behaviour among employees. The article hypothesizes that conflict and bullying will be higher, that employee affective well-being will be lower and that frequencies of counterproductive work behaviour will also be higher in the presence of Corporate Psychopaths. Research was conducted among 304 respondents in Britain in 2011, using a psychopathy scale embedded in a self-completion management survey. The article concludes that Corporate Psychopaths have large and significant impacts on conflict and bullying and employee affective well-being; these have large and significant impacts on counterproductive work behaviour. There is no difference between male and female degrees of negative reaction to the presence of managers who are Corporate Psychopaths.

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Citations in the corpus

• Psychopathic Leadership A Case Study of a Corporate Psychopath CEO (2017, unknown): “…peers are, and initial evidence suggests that they are prolifically destructive, for example, in terms of the regular, frequent bullying of multiple victims (Boddy et al. 2015; Boddy 2014), then the study of their behaviour may yield significant insights into the causes of corporate misbehaviour.”
• Are they among us? A conceptual framework of the relationship between the dark triad personality and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) (2016, background): “Corporate psychopaths were found to be key contributors to conflict and bullying (Baughman, Dearing, Giammarco, & Vernon, 2012), and through this to low employee affective wellbeing and high CWBs (Boddy, 2014).”
• Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths (2015, background): “Usually in such presentations, around 35% of people claim to have worked with a corporate psychopath, and similar figures have been found in quantitative research (Boddy, 2010a, 2014).”