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0000-0003-3266-4066
Current Organisations
Curtin University
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University of Tasmania
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Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge Campus
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Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all: The critical role of (toxic) leadership
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-06-2023
DOI: 10.1111/BASR.12309
Abstract: Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all implies a care for all and for the future. However, in this commentary I note that many corporate and political leaders do not care for others or the future because, embodying egotistical, ruthless, remorseless, and dishonest (psychopathic) characteristics, their concern is only for themselves. This commentary argues that toxic leadership and governance, in the form of corporate psychopathy and corporate psychopaths, are important barriers to achieving sustainability. Notably, and of relevance to this argument, the embodiment of psychopathic traits can give people the ability to brazenly push themselves to the top, unimpeded by emotional distractions and thereby attain leadership. However, due to their deep indifference to corporate social responsibility and a readiness to falsify environmental impact reports, engage in faking corporate social responsibility and illegally dump toxic waste materials the influence of such psychopathic leadership may be detrimental to sustainability and to flourishing for all. Leaders high in psychopathy will ignore or dismiss scientific evidence of unsustainable practices because they do not care about the future or about dismissing scientific evidence of detriments to the prospects for humanity. Accordingly toxic leadership and governance are arguably the critical factors in achieving a flourishing sustainability. The future of all life thus depends on who we choose as our leaders.
Is the Only Rational Personality that of the Psychopath? Homo Economicus as The Most Serious Threat to Business Ethics Globally
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-08-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S41463-023-00150-Y
Abstract: The current paper explores the rationality and associated non-emotionality of the psychopathic mind. This was undertaken because psychopaths in the corporate sphere (corporate psychopaths) have been identified as possessing the ability to rise to senior leadership positions within organisations from where they can wield enormous power over their colleagues, organisation and society. When in leadership, the psychopathic create emotional turbulence among their colleagues and subordinates, resulting in an extreme workplace environment. Nonetheless, findings as to the rationality of the psychopathic, include that psychopaths do embody the characteristics of economic rationality and may be the only rational human or ‘homo economicus’ that exists. Taken together with their total immorality and lack of all integrity this makes them the most serious threat to business ethics globally and a threat to the coherence of human society. These findings are important because such people care nothing for the future of humanity and their rationality is dedicated towards personal, short-term gratification. Potentially dire implications for humanity, organisations and society are drawn from this.
Insights into the Bernie Madoff financial market scandal which identify new opportunities for business market researchers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14707853231173260
Abstract: This article reflectively applies measurement tools to gage whether a renowned financier and ch ion of shareholder capitalism, in 20 th century business history, might be categorized as a corporate psychopath. The article examines aspects of the career of the outstanding financial investment manager, Bernie Madoff. Psychopaths and corporate psychopaths are defined as background to the article. Gauges of corporate psychopathy and psychopathy are outlined which could be modified by market research companies to identify corporate psychopathy in organisations as a way of aiding investment decisions into such organisations. The current article concludes that insolvencies such as those at Madoff’s investment company, have been distinguished by CEOs being present who were simultaneously the lauded agents of financial market capitalism and who embodied the traits of the corporate psychopath. The examination of potential corporate psychopaths using this historical methodology helps inform ideas about what the effects of psychopathic leadership may be within economies and gives new insights into the reasons for the greed, risk taking, and unethical practices found in financial markets. Findings support the accepted view that corporate psychopaths can be discovered in senior roles in the financial services sector. This current paper provides new avenues for research offerings from market research companies. For ex le, business to business researchers could undertake research to identify firms more likely to be longitudinally viable, sustainable and less likely to collapse (i.e., non-psychopathic firms). Investment companies like pension funds could use such research to identify firms that are less risky, more ethical, better led, and therefore safer to invest in.
THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL PSYCHOPATHY ON ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATION
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 17-11-2021
DOI: 10.1142/S1363919621500523
Abstract: 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 effect, from a survey of 261 full-time, white collar Australian employees, is strongest for product innovation and then administrative innovation, with the positive effect for process administration not statistically significant. Psychopathic managers have previously been linked to many detrimental characteristics within organisations and while this study finds employees working under psychopathic managers have lower autonomy in completing their work, their creativity is not decreased. Thus, the usual mechanism of higher creativity producing higher innovation is not the path linking psychopathic managers to innovation. It may be that the extreme environment, stress and high pressure created by psychopathic managers pushes employees towards innovativeness. This potentially positive effect of psychopathic managers is contrasted with their commonly reported negative aspects and suggests new avenues to explore for research aiming to increase innovation in the workplace.
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University Of Lincoln
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge Campus
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University Of Leicester
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Middlesex University Business School
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Liverpool John Moores University
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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