Counterproductive Work Behaviors

9The Victims of the Dark Triad

One of the most severe organizational dangers is workplace victimization (Solas, 2015). The propensity toward this type of abuse in government organizations, as well as in private ones, is most disturbing because of its bearing on the fate of ever increasing numbers of organizations and personnel. Workplace victimization is a particularly poisonous strain of organizational malice. It includes bullying, harassment, “mobbing,” and more (Solas, 2015). Bullying, for example, is a major barrier to organizational efficiency and productivity and a major cost to organizations and to economies as a whole (Boddy, 2011a , 2011b). One relatively unexplored aspect of the dark triad personalities is their victims, who are not ...