Understanding dark side personality at work: Distinguishing and reviewing nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal effects
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Bart Wille
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Correspondence Bart Wille, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Search for more papers by this authorFien Heyde
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorJasmine Vergauwe
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Work and Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorFilip De Fruyt
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Bart Wille
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Correspondence Bart Wille, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorFien Heyde
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorJasmine Vergauwe
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Work and Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorFilip De Fruyt
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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The topic of dark side personality at work has received considerable research attention over the past decade, and both qualitative and quantitative reviews of this field have already been published. To show the relevance of dark personality in the work context, existing reviews have typically focused on systematically discussing the different criteria that have been linked to dark traits (e.g., job performance, work attitudes, leadership emergence, etc.). In contrast, and complementing this earlier work, the current review paper summarizes the available literature on this topic by structuring it in terms of the nature of the relationships studied rather than in terms of the types of outcome variables. Doing so, the focus shifts from “What are the outcomes of dark traits?” to “How are dark traits related to work outcomes?” Scrutinizing the nature of these relationships, we specifically focus on four types of effects (i.e., nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal) that highlight the complexity of how dark side traits operate in the work context. Structured this way, this review first provides a conceptual underpinning of each of these complex effects, followed by a summary of the empirical literature published over the past 10 years. To conclude, we present an integration of this field, provide suggestions for future research, and highlight concrete assessment challenges.
Practitioner points
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Dark side traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) predict a range of undesirable work outcomes.
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To better understand these effects, we propose paying closer attention to nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal effects.
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This requires fine-grained assessments, repeated measurements, and knowledge of the job context.
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Specific assessment guidelines are provided which can be used in the context of employee screening and coaching.
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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
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