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Employee Well-Being Under Corporate Psychopath Leaders
Citation
Boddy, CR and Malovany, E and Kunter, A and Gull, G, Employee Well-Being Under Corporate Psychopath Leaders, The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being, Palgrave Macmillan, S Dhiman (ed), Switzerland, pp. 1-28. ISBN 978-3-030-30024-1 (2021) [Research Book Chapter]
Official URL: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030300241
Abstract
This chapter reports on twenty-one in-depth interviews in the UK and USA with corporate
employees who were currently working or had previously worked with a toxic leader in the
form of a corporate psychopath. This is thus a chapter that is concerned with the impact on
well-being of working with a corporate psychopath. Corporate psychopathy was defined
using a measure of psychopathy involving proto-typical characteristics such as lying,
cheating, egocentricity, emotional unresponsiveness and grandiosity. A contribution of the
chapter is that it answers the call for research which links the destructive leadership literature
with employee well-being. Research participants in both countries reported that their wellbeing was affected by psychopathic leadership, with reports of stress-related illnesses and
depression, including suicidal thoughts. The chapter concludes that corporate psychopaths, in
both the UK and USA, appear to have a similar protocol for achieving their objectives and
achieve similar results. This protocol involves using loud, regular, public bullying combined
with threats of violence to create a fearful, cowed and compliant workforce who can the more
easily be manipulated and controlled by the abusive corporate psychopath. Research
participants in both the USA and UK suffered from severely reduced well-being because of
this common experience.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | employees, happiness, well-being, corporate psychopaths, psychopathy |
Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Strategy, management and organisational behaviour |
Research Field: | Corporate governance |
Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
Objective Group: | Management and productivity |
Objective Field: | Industrial relations |
UTAS Author: | Boddy, CR (Professor Clive Boddy) |
ID Code: | 141325 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Deposited By: | TSBE |
Deposited On: | 2020-10-14 |
Last Modified: | 2020-11-10 |
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