Corporate Psychopaths Organisational Destroyers

Psychopaths are little understood outside of the criminal image. However, as the recent global financial crisis highlighted, the behavior of a small group of managers can potentially bring down the entire western system of business. This book investigates

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Corporate Psychopaths

10.1057/9780230307551preview - Corporate Psychopaths, Clive Boddy

10.1057/9780230307551preview - Corporate Psychopaths, Clive Boddy

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to npg - PalgraveConnect - 2016-02-03

Corporate Psychopaths Organisational Destroyers

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to npg - PalgraveConnect - 2016-02-03

Clive R. Boddy

10.1057/9780230307551preview - Corporate Psychopaths, Clive Boddy

© Clive R. Boddy 2011 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.

The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–28472–2 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boddy, Clive. Corporate psychopaths : organisational destroyers / Clive Boddy. p. cm. Includes index. Summary: “Psychopaths are little understood outside of the criminal image. However, as the recent global financial crisis highlighted, the behavior of a small group of managers can potentially bring down the entire western system of business. This book investigates who they are, why they do what they do and what the consequences of their presence are” – Provided by publisher. ISBN 978–0–230–28472–2 1. Organisational behavior. 2. Industrial relations. 3. Psychology, Industrial. 4. Aggressiveness. I. Title. HD58.7.B6325 2011 302.3⬘5—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne

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