Encouragement of Corporate Psychopaths by Organisations

Clive Boddy

Chapter 12 in Corporate Psychopaths, 2011, pp 137-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Leading commentators on psychopathy such as Hare, Babiak and Clarke have said that companies inadvertently attract employees who are psychopaths because of the wording of their job advertisements and their desire to engage people who are prepared to do whatever it takes to be successful in business. Other management researchers have noted that employees feel a disconnection between their personal morality and what they are required to do at work. To see whether opinions about what types of employees corporations want were in line with these views, the questionnaire responses from sixty-one postgraduate business students detailed in the previous chapter included a question on what characteristics the students thought were valued in their organisation.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Resource Management; Questionnaire Response; Previous Chapter; Personal Morality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230307551_12

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