<scp>D</scp>ark <scp>P</scp>ersonality in the <scp>W</scp>orkplace: Introduction to the Special Issue

Schyns, Birgit

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“…Selection practitioners have recently expressed renewed interest in the measurement of sub-clinical maladaptive personality (Guenole, 2014a;Schyns, 2015;Spain, Harms, & LeBreton, 2014). This interest is heightened following recurring examples of senior business executives behaving in ethically inappropriate ways (e.g.…”

Section: Forced Choice Assessment Of Work-related Maladaptive Personamentioning

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Forced-Choice Assessment of Work-Related Maladaptive Personality Traits: Preliminary Evidence From an Application of Thurstonian Item Response Modeling

2016

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This article describes an investigation of whether Thurstonian item response modeling is a viable method for assessment of maladaptive traits. Forced-choice responses from 420 working adults to a broad-range personality inventory assessing six maladaptive traits were considered. The Thurstonian item response model's fit to the forced-choice data was adequate, while the fit of a counterpart item response model to responses to the same items but arranged in a single-stimulus design was poor. Mono-trait hetero-method correlations indicated corresponding traits in the two formats overlapped substantially, although they did not measure equivalent constructs. A better goodness of fit and higher factor loadings for the Thurstonian item response model, coupled with a clearer conceptual alignment to the theoretical trait definitions, suggested that the single-stimulus item responses were influenced by biases that the independent clusters measurement model did not account for. Researchers may wish to consider forced-choice designs and appropriate item response modeling techniques such as Thurstonian item response modeling for personality questionnaire applications in industrial psychology, especially when assessing maladaptive traits. We recommend further investigation of this approach in actual selection situations and with different assessment instruments.

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Section: Forced Choice Assessment Of Work-related Maladaptive Personamentioning

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Forced-Choice Assessment of Work-Related Maladaptive Personality Traits: Preliminary Evidence From an Application of Thurstonian Item Response Modeling

2016

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“…Psychopathy and its consequences have mesmerized the media and intrigued scholars for many years (Cleckley, ; Hare, ; Lykken, ; Schyns, ; Smith & Lilienfeld, ). Some people with elevated levels of psychopathy tend to be destructive, impulsive, and emotionally unconcerned about the extent to which their actions might harm others.…”

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Fearless dominance and performance in field sales: A predictive study

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Blickle

Wihler

2017

Int J Selection Assessment

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In a prospective study of 150 junior salespeople in the same company, we examined the relation between fearless dominance, which is a dimension of trait psychopathy, and objective performance in field sales. After controlling for demographic variables, length of job tenure, initial sales training quality, and disciplined achievement motivation, the results supported an inverted U‐shaped relation, which showed that, after a certain turning point, increases in fearless dominance resulted in decreases in performance. Thus, the most successful salespeople in our sample possessed moderate levels of fearless dominance. Implications for theory, practice, and future research are provided in light of a number of notable strengths and limitations.

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“…Kaiser, LeBreton, Hogan (2015) defi ne the darker side of personality as the way we behave when we feel stressed, tired and less alert, and by the way we are being perceived by others. According to some this research area falls within the DSM-V's classifi cation of personality troubles, but the symptoms are less acute (Schyns, 2015). So far a number of different traits can be found in the Brought to you by | MIT Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/12/18 9:23 AM measures of the darker side of personality, including Narcissism, Hubris, Social Dominance and Machiavellianism (see Judge, Piccolo, Kosalka, 2009).…”

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“…For example, Deluga (1997) found that narcissistic American presidents were deemed more charismatic and their performance was rated higher than non-narcissistic presidents. Grijalva, Harms, Brought to you by | MIT Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/12/18 9:23 AM Newman, Gaddis, and Fraley (in press; cited in Schyns, 2015) conducted a meta-analysis of narcissism that suggests that there is a relationship between narcissism and leadership emergence, but not with leadership effectiveness. This appears to be consistent with the bright and dark side of narcissism: for instance at fi rst, narcissists seem confi dent but in the longer run, this turns into entitlement (Campbell, Hoffman, Campbell, Marchisio, 2011).…”

Section: Leaders' Dark Personality Its Effect On Leadership and Orgamentioning

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The Interpersonal Pollution and its Effect on Group Members’ Well-Being, and on Culture of Unity in Organizational Context

Pietrulewicz

2016

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration

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The new concept of "interpersonal pollution" and its antecedents and effects, i.e. on organizational members' health and well-being and on organizational outcomes are investigated. Building upon this work this presentation proposes a model and tentative defi nition of a broader construct, i.e. "organizational pollution", and identifi es its potential antecedents and explores its impact on humans' health and well-being and organizational outcomes. In particular our model explores the roles played by leaders' and members' dark personalities and lack of environmental concern, by unethical leadership, by both the characteristics of the community and the organization, including the latter's physical and ethical environment, and fi nally their link to organizational pollution. This new model implications for organizational and environmental psychology are discussed.

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Dark Personality in the Workplace: Introduction to the Special Issue

Cited by 57 publications

References 52 publications

Forced-Choice Assessment of Work-Related Maladaptive Personality Traits: Preliminary Evidence From an Application of Thurstonian Item Response Modeling

Forced-Choice Assessment of Work-Related Maladaptive Personality Traits: Preliminary Evidence From an Application of Thurstonian Item Response Modeling

Fearless dominance and performance in field sales: A predictive study

The Interpersonal Pollution and its Effect on Group Members’ Well-Being, and on Culture of Unity in Organizational Context

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