Do you ever feel like your boss is always taking credit for your work while belittling you and focusing on themselves? If so, your manager might be a corporate psychopath.
Clive Boddy, professor of management at Anglia Ruskin University, has researched “ruthlessly self-serving” psychopathic bosses and what they mean for the economy. He is a pioneer in the study of the corporate psychopath in academia, arguing that the unique combination of character traits they possess contributed to the 2008 financial crisis among other disasters.Greg Newington
‘They tend to be seen as stars by those above them because they are so good at impression management, whereas their subordinates tend to think they’re the devil in a suit.’These people are what are sometimes known as “successful psychopaths”. They function within society – and in fact do very well. The biggest sign of a corporate psychopath is a marked difference in how they behave to junior and senior colleagues.
“Not only do people leave under the leadership of a corporate psychopath, it undermines their self-confidence and willingness to work.” While corporate psychopaths are a minority in the workforce, almost everyone feels the effects of their management style given their impact on companies as a whole.
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