ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the corporate psychopaths who have attracted most of the attention in managerial research on the dark triad. It explores the profile of psychopaths and to clarify the role and the impact of corporate psychopaths in work organizations according to existing research. Corporate psychopaths can be described as simply psychopaths working in the corporate sector, possibly attracted by the potentially high monetary rewards, prestige, and power available to those who reach the senior managerial levels of large corporations. Corporate psychopaths then manipulate their way up the corporate ladder, using pawns and shedding patrons as these people are superseded and no longer needed. The issue of psychopaths in public and corporate leadership positions has also gained some prominence in the popular press. Popular magazines, such as Psychology Today, in dealing with workplace issues and psychology, discuss the links between leadership and psychopathy.
