Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths
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Boddy, C., Miles, D., Sanyal, C. and Hartog, M. 2015. Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths. Organization. 22 (4), pp. 530-551. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508415572508
Type | Article |
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Title | Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths |
Authors | Boddy, C., Miles, D., Sanyal, C. and Hartog, M. |
Abstract | This paper reports on in-depth, qualitative research carried out in England in 2013 among five organizational directors and two senior managers who had worked with other senior directors or managers who were Corporate Psychopaths, as measured by a management psychopathy measure. The Corporate Psychopaths reported on in this research displayed remarkable consistency in their approach to management to the extent that they could be called “text book examples” of managerial psychopathy. They were seen as being organizational stars and as deserving of performance awards by those above them, while the Corporate Psychopaths simultaneously subjected those below them to extreme forms of behavior, including bullying, intimidation and coercion and also engaged in extreme forms of mismanagement; such as very poor levels of personnel management, directionless leadership, miss-management of resources and outright fraud. |
Publisher | Sage |
Journal | Organization |
ISSN | 1350-5084 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 29 Jun 2015 |
01 Jul 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Jun 2017 |
Accepted | 17 Jul 2014 |
Output status | Published |
Copyright Statement | Boddy, C., Miles, D., Sanyal, C., & Hartog, M. (2015). Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths. Organization, 22(4), 530–551. . Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508415572508 |
Language | English |
First submitted version |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/87119
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