Counterproductive Work Behaviors

7Can They Be Spotted? Tools for Detecting Dark Triad Personalities

It has been advocated that managers should be screened to find those who are immoral, dysfunctional, psychopathic, and bullying so that organizations, employees, and society can be shielded from their destructive behavior (Boddy, 2011). Individuals who have subclinical psychopathic personality tendencies have personality profiles similar to those having a clinical psychopathic personality but of a lower level. According to leading psychologists and some management theorists, many agency problems involving corporate scandals and failures could be prevented if corporations screened employees for psychopathy (Boddy, 2016). Organizations may be interested in identifying the 5% to ...