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Corporate Psychopaths, conflict, employee affective well-being and counterproductive work behaviour

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posted on 2023-05-19, 20:51 authored by Boddy, CR
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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Publication title

Journal of Business Ethics

Volume

121

Pagination

107-121

ISSN

0167-4544

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publ

Place of publication

Van Godewijckstraat 30, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 3311 Gz

Rights statement

?Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services

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