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- Counter-productive Work Behaviour
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- Corporate Psychopaths and Organisational Reputation
- Corporate Psychopaths and Job Satisfaction
- Corporate Psychopaths as ‘Star Employees’
- Corporate Psychopaths and Career Derailment
- Corporate Psychopaths and Leadership
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- Corporate Psychopaths and Fraud
- Systemic Psychopathy
- Corporate Psychopaths and The Global Financial Crisis
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Corporate Psychopaths and Fraud
Psychologists seem to agree that fraud and psychopathy will tend to be found together. Some case study evidence exists to support this hypothesis and individuals who embody many of the traits of psychopathy have been found to have engaged in financial fraud and CV fraud – falsely obtaining money by deception and falsely claiming qualifications they do not have.
Other figures from business history with pronounced psychopathic traits have also been fraudulent, involving the misstatement of financial affairs at a firm level. Case studies involving Robert Maxwell and the Mirror Group, Kenneth Lay and Enron and Albert Dunlap at Sunbeam Corporation have examined these issues in some detail.