The impact of Psychopathic Leaders on employees’ Performance and the mediating role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Abstract
A Psychopathic leader comes under the umbrella of psychopathy. From scientific and theoretical views psychopathy is a widely contested concept which shows that psychopathy is the evidence of psychology and psychiatry but it also plays an important role in other disciplines as well such as management and criminology. Psychopath is a long historical concept but still owned a conceptual confusion in minds, according to many writers psychopathic behavior is type of irregular behavior which is different from mental illness and has no relation with psychosis behavior. A working environment tends to be hostile and hardly affects the employees performance when the leaders are psychopath and adopts negative leadership behaviors, here we comes to identify a psychopathic leader who own characteristics like egotistical, conscience deficiency and they have unemotionally and brutally approach to life [1].According to statistics 1% people of the universe consisting psychopathic traits and approximately 3.5-4% CEO’s, managers and business leaders are psychopaths when studying the business environment. This paper is investigating results how such leaders’ impact employee performance, with or without mediating role of OCB.
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