Corporate psychopaths
Subtitle: organisational destroyers
By: Clive R. Boddy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780230284722
Subjects: Industrial relations; Organizational behavior; Industrial Psychology; Aggressiveness
Description: "Psychopaths are little understood outside of the criminal image. However, as the recent global financial crisis highlighted, the behavior of a small group of managers can potentially bring down the entire western system of business. This book investigates who they are, why they do what they do and what the consequences of their presence are"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: corporate psychopaths as oOrganisational destroyers; title: The origins of corporate psychopaths; title: Corporate psychopaths, bullying, conflict and unfair supervision in the workplace; title: Corporate ssychopaths, corporate social responsibility and organisational commitment to employees; title: Corporate psychopaths and organisational constraints; title: Corporate psychopaths and workload; title: Corporate psychopaths and job satisfaction; title: Corporate psychopaths and organisational seniority; title: Corporate psychopaths and organisational type; title: Corporate psychopaths and withdrawal from work; title: Critical incidents in the behaviour of corporate psychopaths; title: Encouragement of corporate psychopaths by organisations; title: Corporate psychopaths compared to other dark leadership personalities; title: The corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis; title: Ethical issues involving corporate psychopaths.