Dark Triad of Croatian Management Students

Mario Bogdanović and Domagoj Cingula

Central European Business Review, 2015, vol. 2015, issue 4, 30-47

Abstract: This paper researches the so-called "dark triad" personality traits of management student populations, because of their potential to generate dysfunctional organizational behavior and processes. Namely, the dark triad with characteristics such as lack of empathy, willingness to manipulate others (for self-betterment), antagonism, and belief in one's own superiority can represent a real organizational threat. The goal of this paper is to stimulate thinking and discussion around this issue. The paper is based on questionnaire measurement that adopts the standardized short dark triad measurement instrument of Jones and Paulhus (2012) who measure the scales of Machiavellianism (9 items), narcissism (9 items) and psychopathy (9 items). The sample included 150 students of professional management studies at the Faculty of Economics, University of Split in Croatia. Results of the Croatian students are compared with the results of 387 students in Canada. The results suggest significant statistical differences in the "dark triad" variables between the Canadian and Croatian samples. The practical implications of this paper are in raising awareness and stimulating the thinking of managers around the potential of the "dark triad" traits of engaged human resources to create organizational crisis, and to make preventive and responsive actions to manage the "toxic triad" threat.

Keywords: Dark triad; Machiavellianism; narcissism; psychopathy; human resource management; organizational management; organizational pathology; organizational culture/climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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