Dark Personalities in the Workplace
- 1st Edition - March 11, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Cynthia Mathieu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 2 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 2 8 - 9
Dark Personalities in the Workplace defines dark personalities, their prevalence in the workplace, and how they are best managed. The book brings together research in psycholog… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDark Personalities in the Workplace defines dark personalities, their prevalence in the workplace, and how they are best managed. The book brings together research in psychology and business to both profile these employees and impart best practices for businesses to manage them. Chapters explore narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy in a work context. Coverage includes common behaviors such as incivility, negative attitudes, counterproductive behavior and escalating to harassment, bullying, violence, and fraud. Practical advice is given on how to avoid hiring dark personalities, avoid promoting dark personalities, and how to perform investigations and interventions with dark personalities. With a background in forensic psychology and industrial/organizational psychology, Cynthia Mathieu provides a researched understanding to these personalities, case studies to better understand them, and practical tools and applied solutions for dealing with them.
- Integrates psychology and business literature on dark personalities
- Identifies common personality features and behaviors
- Suggests HR protocols to avoid hiring dark personalities
- Addresses how to manage and review performance for dark personalities
- Explores the importance of leadership and organizational culture
- Presents case studies and applied solutions
- Provides recommendations for investigations and interventions
Researchers and students in the field of personality psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational behavior, leadership psychology, business, and human resource management
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Eliminating the blind spot: defining dark personalities
- Clinical versus subclinical personality disorders
- Dark Triad Model
- Narcissism
- Machiavellianism
- Psychopathy
- A note on sadism
- Similarities and differences among dark personalities
- Dark personalities and other personality models
- The rise of dark personalities (causes, developmental factors, and prevalence)
- Prevalence
- Gender differences
- Dark triad within the workplace
- Practical knowledge: profiling dark personalities in the workplace
- Creating an organizational profile for dark personalities
- Dark Triad workplace competency profile
- Chapter 2. How not to attract dark personalities in your organization: dark personalities and career/organization choice
- Money and power
- Person–organization fit theory
- What they are looking for in an organization
- The importance of job postings
- The power is shifting
- A note on walking the talk
- Changing an organizational culture
- What is your organization’s personality? Measuring organizational culture
- Practice
- Chapter 3. Employee selection: all that glitters is not gold
- The selection process
- Impression management
- Verbal impression management tactics
- Nonverbal impression management tactics
- Practice: the selection interview case
- Using practices that will help weed out candidates presenting dark personalities
- Practice: creating a selection process document
- Chapter 4. Performance appraisal: how to stop the dark from rising
- How dark individuals manipulate performance appraisal systems
- Performance evaluation biases
- Impression management and performance appraisal
- Impact of IM on performance appraisals
- Defensive IM tactics
- IM tactics, promotion, and gender
- Creating a performance appraisal process
- What should be measured?
- How to measure it?
- Behaviorally anchored rating scales
- Multisource rating
- The importance of feedback in a performance appraisal process
- Dark personalities and reaction to feedback
- Key elements for successfully implementing performance appraisal systems
- Practice
- Chapter 5. Leadership and dark personalities
- Manager versus leader
- Dark personalities and leadership
- Leader–Member Exchange theory
- Dark leadership
- Narcissistic leaders
- Machiavellian leadership
- Psychopathic leadership
- Dark personalities and leadership: an evolutionary explanation
- Positive leadership models
- Leadership traits
- Practice: building a positive leadership competency profile for selection, performance appraisal, and promotion
- Chapter 6. Violence in the workplace: the antipersonnel crime theory
- Violence in the workplace
- Harassment and bullying
- Prevalence of workplace violence
- Impact of workplace harassment on victims
- Workplace violence perpetrator profile
- Dark personalities and violence
- Organizational causes of workplace violence
- Practice: creating a secure workplace
- Intervention
- Practice section: anti-harassment policy and anti-harassment programs
- Chapter 7. Negative attitudes, counterproductive work behavior, and corporate fraud
- Dark personalities and employee attitudes
- Counterproductive work behaviors
- Corporate fraud
- Organizational structures that allow fraud and CWB
- The best prevention is to have a hiring process that allows screening out unethical employees
- Practice section: writing a counterproductive work behavior policy and program
- Chapter 8. Don’t be afraid of the dark: how to manage dark employees
- Dealing with dark personalities in the workplace
- Building a case for corporate misbehavior
- Practice: how to build a case for corporate misbehavior perpetrated by individuals presenting dark personalities
- Practice: Case studies
- Chapter 9. Final thoughts
- Success and happiness
- Redefining leadership and success: it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey
- Differentiating the good from the bad: intentions
- The power of humility
- Greed and growth
- How to create a positive workplace
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 11, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 262
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158272
- eBook ISBN: 9780128158289
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Cynthia Mathieu
Cynthia Mathieu, PhD, is Professor of Organizational Behavior, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. She consults with organizations, teaches, and actively engages in research and publications on employee selection and well-being, organizational fraud, leadership, narcissism, and psychopathy in the workplace.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, CanadaRead Dark Personalities in the Workplace on ScienceDirect