Do you know or work with any Dark Triad people, without realising it. Learn more about the darker states of people. One of the primary observations that led to the treatment of the Dark Triad traits as a collective, was that each trait, for example Agreeableness, is associated with Disagreeableness. While Disagreeableness might bind the Dark Triad traits, a tendency towards dishonesty, and immodesty, as measured by low levels in the Honesty/Humility domain in the HEXACON 64, might bind them even more strongly. While the traits are bound together as a constellation, they have their own unique links as well.
For example, Narcissism was associated with positive Extraversion, Openness and Conscientiousness. Machiavellianism was associated with negative Extraversion, and Psychopathy was associated with negative Conscientiousness. All these traits showed strong associations with negative levels of Honesty/Humility, and revealed an overall lack of sincerity. Machiavellianism and Psychopathy were related to a lack of Fairness. Narcissism was associated with deficits in Modesty, and high levels of excess.
It has now surely come of time, in this new Genemetric world of behavioural science, to fully engage in cross‐cultural work, to truly understand the role of these Hexacon domain traits on a global scale. In a world where the actions of people thousands of miles away, can have dire consequences for local and foreign people alike, the ability to better understand the nature of darkness, worldwide, could not be any timelier.
THE DARK TRAID TRAITS - A glimmer of light in the darkness.
The existence of Dark Triad traits may come as little surprise to you, because they fit well with lay theories of ‘evil’, often framed within the Standard Social Science Model, built on philosophical ‘insights’ from Rousseau who considered people to be ‘noble savages’ corrupted by society. The vestiges of this thinking can be seen in modern clinical and social psychology in the form of ‘environmental determinism’.
Environmental determinism is a 'philosophical position' that places contextual, cultural, and, somewhat, circumstantial factors as the primary cause of our human behaviours and values, including antisocial ones, and attempts to downplay the role of genetics, in accounting for human behaviour. Unfortunately, much of this work in psychology and the social sciences has been fuelled by flat earth blank slate thinkers. When people who adopt this framework are asked why there is ‘evil’ in the world, they reply: because of conditioning, bad childhood experiences, or modelling ‘bad’ behaviour.
If this were true, we would contend that the Dark Triad traits would not seem particularly interesting, beyond its use for description and intervention. However, the Dark Triad traits are central to the psychopathology of human behaviours, meaning that both genetic factors, and how we all individually perceive the same environment differently, based on our Genemetrics, combine to help us begin to understand the individual differences of human behaviour in all these traits.
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Is anyone deliberately harming your business with toxic behaviours? Do you have a dark side in your Organization, of Counterproductive Work Behaviour, (CWBs) and Dark Triad Traits (DTT): (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy). The relationship between perceptions of organisational politics, and perceived accountability, are two mediators of the relationship between the dark triad personalities and CWBs. Political skills moderate the dark triad states as well as your organisational transparency, policies, and culture/climate.
Counterproductive Work Behaviours (CWBs), are deliberate actions that harm your company. They include a variety of acts that can be directed toward organisation, or toward other people. Destroying company property, purposely doing work incorrectly, and taking unauthorised work breaks are examples. Assaulting a co-worker, insulting others, and shouting at someone are also forms of CWB. CWB is considered an umbrella term that subsumes, in part or whole, similar constructs concerning harmful behaviours at work, including aggression, deviance, retaliation, and revenge. Each type of CWB was treated, until recently, as a series of discrete incidents, such as theft or harassment. Are those that are deliberately harming your company?
For example, those whose level of political skills is lowered, their Machiavellian tendency will lead them to manipulate employees to get what they want without any consideration. On one hand, therefore, politically skilled managers have the capacity of understanding employees and the ability to extract accurate information from situations. Thus, they operate in their environments more effectively, due to the political skill that provides them with awareness about the required acts to achieve desired outcomes.
