Businesses under pressure in the global economic crisis have been warned to be on the lookout for corporate psychopaths in their ranks. Psychopaths’ main failings were that they did not show honesty, modesty and trustworthiness.
Psychopaths were believed to make up 1 per cent of the general population but about 3 per cent of the corporate world.
“They actually exhibit characteristics highly valued by the business world because their lack of empathy and conscience can be seen as an ability to make tough decisions, and they don’t seem to experience stress.”
Signs an employee might be a corporate psychopath included being smooth and charming, redirecting conversations to themselves, putting down others, telling lies, demonstrating a lack of empathy, creating internal power networks and using them for personal gain.
The only truly shocking news here is that only 3% of the corporate world falls into this “psychopath” category.