 Corporate PsychopathsClive R. P. Boddy, Peter Galvin and Richard K. Ladyshewsky Chapter 2 in Ethical Leadership, 2011, pp 17-33 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract As once-great companies are brought down by the misdeeds of their leaders, commentators on business ethics note that corporate scandals have assumed epidemic proportions. One writer on leadership goes as far as to say that modern society is suffering from a plague of bad leadership in both the private and public sectors (Allio, 2007). These commentators raise the intriguing question of how resourceful organisations end up with such poor leaders in the first place (Singh, 2008). Understanding the role of Corporate Psychopaths helps to answer this question. Psychopaths are people without a conscience who often end up in prison (Hare, 1999). They are one of the most studied of all people with personality disorders. A well-established, valid, and reliable method for identifying them exists, called the Psychopathy Checklist — Revised (PCL-R) (Hare, 1991; Hare at al., 1991). This checklist is used around the world, and has been called the ‘gold standard’ tool for identifying and assessing psychopathy (Edens, 2006; Mahmut et al., 2007; Edens et al., 2006). Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Business Ethic; Personality Disorder; Global Financial Crisis; Antisocial Personality Disorder (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29906-1_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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