Psychopathy, charisma, and success: A moderation modeling approach to successful psychopathy

ECO Welsh, MF Lenzenweger - Journal of research in personality, 2021 - Elsevier
Psychopathic traits are associated with negative outcomes; however, they have also been
associated with adaptive outcomes (eg, corporate success, etc.). We tested the Moderated …

How so many toxic employees ascend to leadership

C Boddy, L Boulter, S Fishwick - Debating bad leadership: Reasons and …, 2021 - Springer
Leadership is crucially important because it magnifies the morality of the leader, spreading
through organizations, communities and societies in a “leadership multiplier effect”. Yet …

Is the only rational personality that of the psychopath? Homo economicus as the most serious threat to business ethics globally

CR Boddy - Humanistic Management Journal, 2023 - Springer
The current paper explores the rationality and associated non-emotionality of the
psychopathic mind. This was undertaken because psychopaths in the corporate sphere …

HRM's Response to Workplace Bullying: Complacent, Complicit and Compounding

CR Boddy, L Boulter - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
Perceptions of human resource (HRM) management's response to worker bullying were
investigated through a netnographic analysis of written comments concerning an online …

The impact of managerial psychopathy on organisational innovation

CR Boddy, R Taplin - International Journal of Innovation …, 2021 - World Scientific
Counter intuitively, this research finds that innovation is not negatively correlated with the
presence of psychopathic managers but rather is significantly and positively correlated. This …

How to Know if a Coworker Has Psychopathic Traits

C Caggiano, I Anillo, TD Kennedy - Psychopathy in the Workplace: Co** …, 2024 - Springer
The presence of psychopathy in the workplace, though a relatively rare phenomenon, can
lead to a toxic work environment and potential emotional discord outside of the workplace …

Leadership Development—How to Progress from a Negative Leader to a Positive One (Or Make a Positive Leader Even Better!)

BW Eversole - The Leadership Spectrum: A Continuum of Empathetic …, 2025 - Springer
In the final chapter, we take a leadership development perspective and discuss how to help
bad leaders become better leaders. We start with uncivil leaders, as they are the most …

The masked prevalence and cost of working with female primary psychopaths in the Community Services Sector

FM Girkin - 2024 - espace.curtin.edu.au
This study examined the presence and impact of female primary psychopaths in Australian
Community Services Sector (CSS) workplaces. The mixed method approach included …

Paradigm busters: researchers into stomach ulcers and corporate psychopaths

CR Boddy, S Curran, F Girkin - International Journal of …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
Through the lens of Kuhn's ideas concerning scientific paradigms, this paper looks at two
fields of research where findings were previously rejected by their disciplines; firstly, the …

[PDF][PDF] A quest to find the light

N Lawrence - researchgate.net
This is a development paper, and primarily a review of existing literature on successful
psychopathy with the aim to develop it into a full research paper. An aim of the proposed …