scholarly journals Dark Triad, Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Moderating Effect of Political Skills

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Baloch ◽  
Fanchen Meng ◽  
Zefeng Xu ◽  
Ignacio Cepeda-Carrion ◽  
Danish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Political Skills ◽  
Perceptions Of Organizational Politics

Political skill and self-serving counterproductive work behaviors: Moderating role of perceptions of organizational politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Fariha Zahid ◽  
Arif Nazir Butt ◽  
Abdul Karim Khan
Keyword(s):  
Political Skill ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Perceptions Of Organizational Politics ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation

AbstractThe scholarship on political skill documents that it is a social savvy, personal style construct, associated with positive personal and organizational outcomes. However, this study takes a counterintuitive view and demonstrates that despite being a positive resource, political skill also has the potential to be used as a self-serving device to achieve one's personal agendas in the form of self-serving counterproductive work behaviors. Borrowing insights from the trait activation theory, this study demonstrates that a context, high in political perceptions, acts as an incentivized condition for politically skilled people to execute its dark side. The results supported the hypothesis and revealed that under high perceptions of organizational politics, political skill will have a significant, positive relation with self-serving counterproductive work behaviors. The study discusses important theoretical and practical implications of these results and extends the domains of political skill and counterproductive work behaviors.

scholarly journals Dark Triad, Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Workplace Incivility, and the Role of Islamic Work Values: A Moderated Mediation Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Chughtai ◽  
Dr. Hira Salah Ud Din Khan ◽  
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah ◽  
Lenny Yusrini
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Workplace Incivility ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Threatened Egotism ◽  
Ethical Climate Theory

The organization’s ethical climate increases productivity at the individual the organizational level; further, it reduces the harmful characteristics and negative intensity of individuals’ inflated self-esteem. Integration of the theory of threatened egotism and ethical climate theory, this study’s objective was to examine the mediating mechanism of workplace incivility between dark triad (Narcissism, Psychopathy and Machiavellianism) and counterproductive work behaviors with the sample from public sector (judiciary) institution. Additionally, in the present study, we also test the moderating effect of Islamic work values between the mediating relationship of workplace incivility and counterproductive work behaviors. Close-ended questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample size of 268 participants (permanent employees of the judiciary) of a public sector organization who voluntarily participate in the process of data collection for this study. To test the study’s proposed hypothesis, different statistical techniques, i.e., correlation, regression were applied to test the direct effects, and Hayes PROCESS-macro method was applied to test indirect effects (mediation), moderation, and moderated mediation. Findings of the study indicate that workplace incivility mediates the association of dark triad and counterproductive work behaviors. Furthermore, findings reveal that Islamic work values moderate the mediated relationship between workplace incivility and counterproductive work behaviors. We also tested the moderated mediation model, and findings indicate that Islamic work values weaken the positive intensity of dark triad and counterproductive work behaviors in the presence of workplace incivility. This study’s findings further declare that a higher level of Islamic work values weaken the intensity of negative personality on counterproductive work behaviors and decrease the uncivil behaviors of individuals at the workplace. Policymakers and higher management of public sector institutions especially focus on the psychological health and organizational climate to reduce the workplace’s harmful behaviors. Finally, this study theoretically enhances knowledge of personality psychology literature by explaining the negative consequences of negative personalities at the workplace. Overall, this study contributed to the theory of threatened egotism and ethical climate theory by integrating dark triad, workplace incivility, counterproductive work behaviors, and Islamic work values collaborations with exciting outcomes, specifically with the background of public sector institution of Asian developing country. Keywords: Dark Triad; Workplace Incivility; Islamic Work Values; Counterproductive Work Behaviors; Theory of Threatened Egotism; Ethical Climate Theory.

scholarly journals A DARK TRIAD, ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND WORK ENGAGEMENT AS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIOURS CORRELATES

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Romuald Derbis ◽  
◽  
Jakub Filipkowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviours

The main objective of this paper is exploration of mechanisms clarifying work behaviors commonly known as bad. Researchers call it Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWB). Understanding of those processes can lead to theoretical conclusions that could help to minimize those behaviors in organizations. Presented research (N=138) was conducted to verify: 1) Goal Achievement Motivation, Dark Triad and Work Engagement as Counterproductive Work Behaviors predictors, 2) moderating role of Dark Triad and Work engagement for Counterproductive Work Behaviors. Additionally, we checked Narcissism as a mediator of Psychopathy and Machiavellianism with Counterproductive Work Behaviors. We used: Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Szabowska-Walaszczyk, Zawadzka & Wojtaś, 2011), AGQ-r – Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Lipowska, 2016), CWB-c – Counteproductive Work Behavior – checklist (Baka, Derbis & Walczak, 2015) and Parszywa Dwunastka Questionnaire (Czarna & Jonason, 2016). Research was performed on a group of office workers. We assumed that this type of work can be connected with higher intensity of Counterproductive Work Behaviors. Results, that are discussed in the final part of this paper, were mostly consistent with hypothesis. Key words: counterproductive work behaviors, Dark Triad, achievement goals, work engagement

Dark triad and situational variables and their relationship to career success and counterproductive work behaviors among employees in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Cohen ◽  
Emrah Özsoy
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Situational Variables

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between dark triad personality (DTP) and organizational and individual counterproductive work behaviors (CWB) and perceived career success among employees in Turkey. Additionally, the study examined the effects of four situational variables: perceived organizational politics, transparency, psychological contract breach, and accountability.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 156 employees across five service organizations in Sakarya, Turkey, using the survey method.FindingsThe regression analysis findings showed that the three traits of the DTP, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy were significantly related to both organizational and interpersonal dimensions of the CWB. Narcissism was not related to any of the dimensions of CWB. The findings showed no significant relationship between any of the four situational variables and the two forms of CWB. However, three of the situational variables were related to perceived career success, while the three dimensions of DTP were not.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitations of this study are its cross-sectional design and the self-reported measures of the dependent variables. Interestingly, the study showed that having high levels of DTP does not necessarily promote their careers.Originality/valueThis study contributes to examining career success as a dependent variable in addition to CWB. The findings showed that situational variables are related to career success, and DTP is related to CWB. This finding has both conceptual and practical implications.

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