Main description:

This collection of contributions by international experts in the field provides an update on dark personality in the workplace, covering several different aspects including narcissism, power motives, and leadership outcomes of dark personality. Data has been collected in different countries, using different methodological approaches, and all contributions underwent peer review.
The volume comprises current reviews of dark personality and narcissism in the workplace, explores innovative methodological approaches to measuring dark personality, looks at how to deal with dark leadership as well as presents several empirical contributions on the relationships between dark triad personality traits and states, power motives, motivation to lead, and abusive supervision. This is essential reading for personality researchers, occupational psychologist, and anyone interested in the Dark Triad and other dark personality traits.

Contents:

Editorial
Connecting Dark Personality Research With Workplace Issues
Birgit Schyns, Susanne Braun, and Pedro Neves
Review Article
Bad Is Stronger Than Good: A Review of the Models and Measures
of Dark Personality
P. D. Harms
Original Articles
Distinguishing the Explicit Power Motives: Relations With
Dark Personality Traits, Work Behavior, and Leadership Styles
Kaspar Schattke and Ariane S. Marion-Jetten
How to Deal With a Difficult Boss: The Roles of Leaders' Narcissistic
Rivalry and Followers' Behavior in Abusive Supervision Intentions
Theresa Fehn and Astrid Schutz
Daily Work Role Stressors and Dark Triad States:
Results of Two Diary Studies
Annika Nubold, Suzanne van Gils, and Hannes Zacher
Research Spotlights
Different Forms of Narcissism and Leadership
Iris K. Gauglitz
Shift, Suppress, Sever: Systemic Strategies for Dealing With
Dark Leadership
Barbara Wisse and Diana Rus
Me, Me, Me: Narcissism and Motivation to Lead
Birgit Schyns, Urszula Lagowska, and Susanne Braun
Opinion
Measuring in the Dark? A Discussion of and Recommendations
for Measuring Narcissism in Micro and Macro Research
Joshua C. Palmer, Gang Wang, Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro, and R. Michael Holmes