Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Narcissistic leaders in organizations and their major effects on employee work behaviors

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2020

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The destructive aspects of leadership and how dysfunctional leaders can jeopardize an organization’sculture and values have been a trend topic in business management recently. The personality traits that areassociated with leader failure mainly come with the Dark Triad traits: narcissism, psychopathy, andMachiavellianism. Narcissism covers some attitudes and behaviors such as an admiration for oneself, self-love,extreme selfishness, arrogance, grandiosity and superiority upon others. As narcissism is described as one ofthe undesired personality traits, unhealthy conditions and destructive consequences can easily be occurredwhen the narcissistic leaders get authorization and come into action in organizations. It’s clear that narcissisticleaders are only interested in him/herself and they usually think that the world is revolving on the axis of “self”and without their leadership, the organization cannot reach its full potential and disappear in the end. In thisconceptual paper, narcissism and narcissistic leaders will be identified and their tactics will be revealed indetail. Then, the common attitudes and behaviors they engage in and reflect others will be outlined and in theconclusion section, the precautions that can be taken to prevent form narcissistic leaders and the ways to reducetheir negative effects on employee work behaviors in organizations will be listed and recommendations will bemade thoroughly.

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Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi SBE Dergisi

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