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Psychopathy in the workplace is a serious issue as, although psychopaths typically represent only a small percentage of the staff, they are most common at higher levels of corporate organizations and their actions often cause a ripple effect throughout an organization, setting the tone for an entire corporate culture. Examples of detrimental effects are increased bullying, conflict, stress, staff turnover and absenteeism; reduction in productivity and social responsibility.〔.〕 Ethical standards of entire organisations can be badly damaged if a corporate psychopath is in charge.〔Boddy C, Ladyshewsky RK, Galvin PG ''Leaders without ethics in global business: corporate psychopaths'' Journal of Public Affairs Vol10 June 2010 P121-138〕 Academics refer to psychopaths in the workplace individually variously as workplace psychopaths, executive psychopaths, corporate psychopaths, business psychopaths, successful psychopaths, office psychopaths, white collar psychopaths, industrial psychopaths, organizational psychopaths or occupational psychopaths.〔Clarke J Working with Monsters: How to Identify and Protect Yourself from the Workplace Psychopath (2012)〕 Robert D. Hare reports that about 1 per cent of the general population meets the clinical criteria for psychopathy.〔.〕 Hare further claims that the prevalence of corporate psychopaths is higher in the business world than in the general population. Figures of around 3–4% have been cited for more senior positions in business.〔 .〕 Unfortunately, even with this small percentage, corporate psychopaths can do enormous damage when they are positioned in senior management roles.〔.〕 ==General== Oliver James identifies psychopathy as one of the dark triadic personality traits in the workplace, the others being narcissism and Machiavellianism.〔James O Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks (2013)〕 Workplace psychopaths are often charming to staff above their level in the workplace hierarchy but abusive to staff below their level.〔Boddy. C. R (2005) “'The Implications for Business Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility of Corporate Psychopaths” in 2nd International Conference on Business Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility, ed. M. Hopkins, Middlesex University Business School, London〕 Hare considers newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell to have been a strong candidate as a corporate psychopath.〔Hare R D Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us 1993〕 Differentiation is made between:〔 * successful psychopaths – corporate high climbers who tend to have had a relatively privileged background with little risk of legal penalties * unsuccessful psychopaths – involved in regular crime who tend to have had less privileged backgrounds and much higher risk of legal penalties. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Psychopathy in the workplace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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