Counterproductive Work Behaviors

5Dark Triad Personalities and Counterproductive Work Behavior

It is argued that personality measurement has considerably more to offer than only the prediction of positive work-related outcomes (Guenole, 2014) and may also be capable of predicting negative behaviors. In this respect, the dark triad can definitely be considered personalities that predict negative behaviors based on the assumption that deviant work-place behaviors may be best predicted by deviant personality traits. Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) are considered deviant behaviors, and our understanding of them may thus be enhanced by viewing measures of deviant or aberrant personality characteristics as predicting them. As mentioned in the introduction, the main reason ...