ESPEC Regional Sales Manager at Michigan factory. Kevin Bannach 877-463-7732
/next Generation!!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
ESPEC Regional Sales Manager
ESPEC Regional Sales Manager at Michigan factory. Kevin Bannach 877-463-7732
/next Generation!!
(Meat) Thermotron ....training ............. "The psychopath has no allegiance to the company at all, just to self,"
A la guerre, comme a la guerre
French proverb
"The main lesson I have learnt is that when dealing with a sociopath,
the normal rules of etiquette do not apply.
You are dealing with someone who has no empathy, no conscience, no remorse, and no guilt...It is a completely different mindset.
Words like 'predator' and 'evil' are often used."
The condition itself has been recognized for centuries, wearing evocative labels such as "madness without delirium" and "moral insanity" until the late 1800s, when "psychopath" was coined by a German clinician.
But the term (and its later 1930s synonym, sociopath) had always been a sort of catch-all, widely and loosely applied to violent and unstable criminals who seemed. The key feature of such people that do not treat others as humans, they treat them as animals.
But later this condition was expanded to include certain type of mangers that consistently demonstrate cult leader qualities. Such "office cult leader" like many high demand cult leaders need only followers and try to completely enslave their victims.
"The psychopath has no allegiance to the company at all, just to self,"
"A psychopath is playing a short-term parasitic game."
In 1980, Hare created a list of static traits, which, revised five years later, became known as the PCL-R. Popularly called "the Hare," the PCL-R measures psychopathy on a forty-point scale.
Once it emerged, it helped to make the meaning of the term more uniform.
With all limitations inherent in such scales this was a good start and despite obvious limitation inherent if static lists it proved to be a useful (abet far from being perfect) tool.
Later Robert Hare and a New York-based Dr Paul Babiak extended this research to corporate environment.
They defined special type of managers whom he called "corporate psychopath" or "criminals without a crime".
According to Professor Hare "Corporate psychopaths tend to be manipulative,
arrogant, callous, impatient, impulsive, unreliable and prone to fly into rages" .
He grade the subject's tendencies in areas and categories and sub-categories but he missed the obvious link of corporate psychopath and cult leaders.
They generally demonstrate the same methods: they never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used.
They dominate and humiliate their victims trying to convert them to slaves.
Surprising percentage of corporate psychopaths are women, They does not see others around her/him as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims and, in corporate environment, slaves:
The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Goal is the enslavement of his victim(s); Tries to exercises despotic control over every aspect of his victim's life
Has a psychological need to justify his crimes
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Hare categories that are useful warning signs include:
Callousness/Lack of Empathy.
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. T
heir skills are used to exploit, abuse and exert power.
Since most normal IT professionals cannot believe their boss would callously hurt them, they rationalize the behavior as necessary for their (or the group's) "good" and deny the abuse.
When you became aware of the exploitation it really looks like "office rape" and corresponds to the behavior of serial rapist.
Carefully hidden chronically unstable, antisocial, or socially deviant lifestyle; often have early behavior problems/juvenile delinquency.
Often demonstrate aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others.
Problems in making and keeping friends due to pathological lying.
Pathological Lying.
Like spiders they cannot live without spinning a web of lies, creating complex artificial reality.
Usually can give such authors as Hemingway run for the money in the ability to invent stories. Has no problem lying coolly and easily "in the eyes" or even under the oath.
Sometimes it looks like they cannot themselves distinguish facts and fiction. It is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Talented actors they can create, and get other caught up in a complex "artificial reality" with realistic but invented details of their biography and abilities. Extremely convincing and able to pass lie detector tests.
Often lie about their academic achievements and pretend to have degrees that they never obtained.
Glibness/Superficial Charm.
Easily provide captivating invented stories suitable for the circumstances. Demonstrate self-confidence. they can .
Very good in verbal confrontations, well trained to destroy their critics verbally or emotionally.
Extremely Manipulative and Conning.
Never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors permissible.
While they appear to be charming to strangers, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They dominate and humiliate their victims converting them into office slaves.
Grandiose Sense of Self.
Feels entitled to certain things as "their legitimate rights."
Craves adulation and attendance. Creates and maintains group polarization, "us-versus-them" mentality.
Systematically works on alienation of subordinates from the rest of the company and instilling the view of "others" as hostile and threatening.
Complete, Absolute Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt.
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims.
The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow, Often Non-genuine Emotions. When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive.
Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person.
Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Dominating and expect unconditional surrender.
They are very harsh in testing it from their devotees and expect them to feel guilt for their failings. Expects unconditional surrender.
Need for Stimulation.
Corporate psychopaths are not necessary living on the edge like regular criminals, yet they like testing subordinates reactions with bizarre rules, punishments and behaviors.
Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Verbal conflict is what replaces some of them sexual life.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature.
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim.
Try to instill the belief that they are well-connected. Demonstrate no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions. Irresponsibility/Unreliability.
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blame their followers or others outside their group. Blame reinforces passivity and obedience and produces guilt, shame, terror and conformity in the followers.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity.
Women frequently practice office promiscuity using sex as an instrument to climb the ladder. This is usually kept hidden from all but the inner circle.
Lack of Realistic planning,
Parasitic Lifestyle.
Tends to live by present moment, attempt to steal and provide to superiors as own ideas and achievements of subordinates. Highly sensitive to their own pain and health.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand him
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with him
Authoritarian,
Secretive and Paranoid (ASP complex)
Only rarely in difficulty with the law,
but seeks out situations where him tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
The uniform goal is cult-style enslavement of his victim(s); Exercises despotic control over every aspect of his victim's life. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Has a psychological need to justify misdeeds and therefore needs his various forms of affirmation.
Promote and maintain cult of personality.
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world!!
Corporate psychopaths score very high on Factor 1 ("selfish, callous, and remorseless use of others" category.
This factor includes eight sub-traits:
glibness and superficial charm;
grandiose sense of self-worth;
pathological lying;
conning and manipulativeness;
lack of remorse or guilt;
shallow affect (i.e., a coldness covered up by dramatic emotional displays that are actually playacting);
callousness and lack of empathy;
Failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.
Corporate psychopaths score only low to moderate on Factor 2, which pinpoints "chronically unstable, antisocial, and socially deviant lifestyle,"
the hallmarks of people who wind up in jail.
But enumeration of traits while helps to recognize the psychopath and provide some limited predictive value about the set of behaviors you can expect from them does not bring us any further as it is dynamics of usage of various types of attacks and attempts to subdue and enslave subordinates that matter.
Static depiction of the traits is too primitive method to capture the complexity of corporate psychopath.
It can has little or no predictive value for predicting types of attacks and enslavement methods used. The latter is the most important for IT professionals who need to deal with them on day to day basis. For some reason in many papers the term "psychopath" and "sociopath" are strongly associated with Mayberry Machiavellis type of bosses: conning, ruthless and deceitful.
IMHO the term is much broader then that and should include anybody who do not treat others as humans and who's aim is enslavement of subordinates much like cult leader attempts to enslave followers. This is the key disorder that distinguishes corporate psychopath from other types of "bad bosses" in modern organizations. IT organizations though have a disproportionate number of woman who are addicted to power and use each and every trick to went up the ladder. They are probably the most dangerous type of corporate psychopaths in IT environment as they are somewhat protected by affirmative actions laws.
Hare estimates that psychopaths account for only about 1% of the general population. But he says there might be a higher proportion in such areas as business, politics, law enforcement agencies, law firms, religious organizations and, yes, the media. He noted that "They have a predatory quality to them and the prey is always around certain areas".
I suspect that in IT environment the percentage can be an order of magnitude higher and may well exceed 10% mark. Large IT organizations are a perfect place for corporate psychopath to flourish as political skills not the competence are key for the path to the top. IT environment is a perfect setting for a corporate psychopath as most IT professionals lack social skills and as such are a pretty easy prey.
According to a recent (and very good) Fast Company article Is Your Boss a Psychopath by Alan Deutschman psychopaths – defined as those unburdened by conscience who selfishly use people “callously and remorselessly for their own ends” –- don’t merely exist in corporate America, but are now more than ever harbored in the business environment. In his study involving a half-dozen companies, renowned industrial psychologist Paul Babiak found that the rapid changes the economy has recently undergone have fed corporate psychopaths, who thrive on the thrills of fast transformations.
After they became entrenched is it very difficult to smoke out these people and give them the boot. Especially in corporate IT were the level of competence among other managers is not that high to mark a deviant with a black mark. One of the problems in identifying the corporate psychopath is that it's a world in which some of the defining characteristics are commonplace.
Many successful managers and executives can, for example, be grandiose and narcissistic; but that doesn't necessarily mean they're psychopaths.
Similarly, many organizations are set up in ways that foster these kinds of behaviors. The key here is probably the level of competence. Psychopath are usually incompetents who using ruthless and Machiavellian behavior try to climb the corporate ladder.
Their penetration in organization is usually staged in several phases:
The entry phase, in which the psychopath charms the hiring team into selecting him or her for the job.
The assessment phase.
Here, the psychopathic employee identifies the potential support network of that consist of:
Patrons (those who will protect and defend the psychopath),
Pawns (those who can be unwittingly manipulated into using their power in service of the psychopath's aims), Organizational Police (staff in such control functions as audit, security, human resources who might get in the way).
The manipulation phase:
the psychopath works the patrons and pawns, building the influence network through close and intense one-on-one relationships and at the same time moving up the organization.
Confrontation phase.
Individuals no longer deemed useful discover they've been wiped, relegated from close friend to Patsy.
Two factions start forming:
Influential supporters (Pawns and Patrons);
Powerless detractors (Patsies and Police).
Cuckoo egg stage.
That's when all that planning and manipulation pays off - the patrons are betrayed, the boss is shoved aside and the psychopath moves in.
As for victims of corporate psychopaths there is very little that they can do to regain control of their career other than leave their job altogether. You cannot negotiate with this kind of bully.
First, because they are psychopaths and as such do not consider you to be a human, and the second they are extremely good at pulling the wool over their employers' eyes.
In fact, if you try to negotiate or mediate, they will simply see you as vulnerable, which can put you in even more danger.
As most of them are petty sadists they get their kicks out of causing other people pain, so a vulnerable person is a prime target.
Research conducted by Field has identified four types of "serial bully" in the workplace with the most dangerous type to be so called the "sociopath".
"The sociopath - which is short for 'socialized psychopath' - is basically my term for the corporate psychopath.
I just chose to emphasize the 'socialized' aspect because these people have brought their behavior to just within what is socially and legally acceptable."
Sociopaths tend to be promoted to middle, or just above, middle management and while they often gravitate towards roles in business, the media, law and politics -
That's because they prey on vulnerable people and vulnerable people often choose to work in this sector.
Now, because the pace of business has accelerated so much, only organizations that move fast can survive. It also makes those organization vulnerable to the infection by corporate psychopaths.
Not all corporate psychopaths get away with their antics, however.
Alan Ross recalls working for a particularly mercenary one in an investment bank. "I was just out of university and she almost screwed me up completely," he says. "She had ambitions to move into a new area of work and did this primarily by getting her researchers - us - to translate and plagiarize equity research from all the continental banks and sell it as her own research. This proved highly successful and she was getting a name for herself as an expert."
Just before she was offered a major job in her new "expert" role, however, Ross decided to put an end to her reign of terror. "First we supplied a dossier to a magazine, which duly printed an exposé of her.
Finally, to rub it right in, we sent copies of the article to every fund manager she ever had dealings with - i.e. all the bank's best and wealthiest customers. Job done - she was suspended pending an investigation and then sacked."
Although I am skeptical about trait enumeration exercises I still consider it valuable for gaining understanding of some typical pattern of behaviors. You can see the result of my exercise on this topic here.
Of course this is a compilation, but this "individualized compilation" that includes some prominent features of psychopath that I dealt with. Please note that you need to check list on all categories described above in order to see a bigger picture.
French proverb
"The main lesson I have learnt is that when dealing with a sociopath,
the normal rules of etiquette do not apply.
You are dealing with someone who has no empathy, no conscience, no remorse, and no guilt...It is a completely different mindset.
Words like 'predator' and 'evil' are often used."
The condition itself has been recognized for centuries, wearing evocative labels such as "madness without delirium" and "moral insanity" until the late 1800s, when "psychopath" was coined by a German clinician.
But the term (and its later 1930s synonym, sociopath) had always been a sort of catch-all, widely and loosely applied to violent and unstable criminals who seemed. The key feature of such people that do not treat others as humans, they treat them as animals.
But later this condition was expanded to include certain type of mangers that consistently demonstrate cult leader qualities. Such "office cult leader" like many high demand cult leaders need only followers and try to completely enslave their victims.
"The psychopath has no allegiance to the company at all, just to self,"
"A psychopath is playing a short-term parasitic game."
In 1980, Hare created a list of static traits, which, revised five years later, became known as the PCL-R. Popularly called "the Hare," the PCL-R measures psychopathy on a forty-point scale.
Once it emerged, it helped to make the meaning of the term more uniform.
With all limitations inherent in such scales this was a good start and despite obvious limitation inherent if static lists it proved to be a useful (abet far from being perfect) tool.
Later Robert Hare and a New York-based Dr Paul Babiak extended this research to corporate environment.
They defined special type of managers whom he called "corporate psychopath" or "criminals without a crime".
According to Professor Hare "Corporate psychopaths tend to be manipulative,
arrogant, callous, impatient, impulsive, unreliable and prone to fly into rages" .
He grade the subject's tendencies in areas and categories and sub-categories but he missed the obvious link of corporate psychopath and cult leaders.
They generally demonstrate the same methods: they never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used.
They dominate and humiliate their victims trying to convert them to slaves.
Surprising percentage of corporate psychopaths are women, They does not see others around her/him as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims and, in corporate environment, slaves:
The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Goal is the enslavement of his victim(s); Tries to exercises despotic control over every aspect of his victim's life
Has a psychological need to justify his crimes
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Hare categories that are useful warning signs include:
Callousness/Lack of Empathy.
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. T
heir skills are used to exploit, abuse and exert power.
Since most normal IT professionals cannot believe their boss would callously hurt them, they rationalize the behavior as necessary for their (or the group's) "good" and deny the abuse.
When you became aware of the exploitation it really looks like "office rape" and corresponds to the behavior of serial rapist.
Carefully hidden chronically unstable, antisocial, or socially deviant lifestyle; often have early behavior problems/juvenile delinquency.
Often demonstrate aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others.
Problems in making and keeping friends due to pathological lying.
Pathological Lying.
Like spiders they cannot live without spinning a web of lies, creating complex artificial reality.
Usually can give such authors as Hemingway run for the money in the ability to invent stories. Has no problem lying coolly and easily "in the eyes" or even under the oath.
Sometimes it looks like they cannot themselves distinguish facts and fiction. It is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Talented actors they can create, and get other caught up in a complex "artificial reality" with realistic but invented details of their biography and abilities. Extremely convincing and able to pass lie detector tests.
Often lie about their academic achievements and pretend to have degrees that they never obtained.
Glibness/Superficial Charm.
Perfectly able to used superficial charm to confuse and convince their audience.
Easily provide captivating invented stories suitable for the circumstances. Demonstrate self-confidence. they can .
Very good in verbal confrontations, well trained to destroy their critics verbally or emotionally.
Extremely Manipulative and Conning.
Never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors permissible.
While they appear to be charming to strangers, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They dominate and humiliate their victims converting them into office slaves.
Grandiose Sense of Self.
Feels entitled to certain things as "their legitimate rights."
(I've payed my DUES)
Craves adulation and attendance. Creates and maintains group polarization, "us-versus-them" mentality.
Systematically works on alienation of subordinates from the rest of the company and instilling the view of "others" as hostile and threatening.
Complete, Absolute Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt.
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims.
The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow, Often Non-genuine Emotions. When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive.
Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person.
Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Dominating and expect unconditional surrender.
They are very harsh in testing it from their devotees and expect them to feel guilt for their failings. Expects unconditional surrender.
Need for Stimulation.
Corporate psychopaths are not necessary living on the edge like regular criminals, yet they like testing subordinates reactions with bizarre rules, punishments and behaviors.
Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Verbal conflict is what replaces some of them sexual life.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature.
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim.
Try to instill the belief that they are well-connected. Demonstrate no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions. Irresponsibility/Unreliability.
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blame their followers or others outside their group. Blame reinforces passivity and obedience and produces guilt, shame, terror and conformity in the followers.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity.
Women frequently practice office promiscuity using sex as an instrument to climb the ladder. This is usually kept hidden from all but the inner circle.
Lack of Realistic planning,
Parasitic Lifestyle.
Tends to live by present moment, attempt to steal and provide to superiors as own ideas and achievements of subordinates. Highly sensitive to their own pain and health.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand him
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with him
Authoritarian,
Secretive and Paranoid (ASP complex)
Only rarely in difficulty with the law,
but seeks out situations where him tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
The uniform goal is cult-style enslavement of his victim(s); Exercises despotic control over every aspect of his victim's life. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Has a psychological need to justify misdeeds and therefore needs his various forms of affirmation.
Promote and maintain cult of personality.
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world!!
Corporate psychopaths score very high on Factor 1 ("selfish, callous, and remorseless use of others" category.
This factor includes eight sub-traits:
glibness and superficial charm;
grandiose sense of self-worth;
pathological lying;
conning and manipulativeness;
lack of remorse or guilt;
shallow affect (i.e., a coldness covered up by dramatic emotional displays that are actually playacting);
callousness and lack of empathy;
Failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.
Corporate psychopaths score only low to moderate on Factor 2, which pinpoints "chronically unstable, antisocial, and socially deviant lifestyle,"
the hallmarks of people who wind up in jail.
But enumeration of traits while helps to recognize the psychopath and provide some limited predictive value about the set of behaviors you can expect from them does not bring us any further as it is dynamics of usage of various types of attacks and attempts to subdue and enslave subordinates that matter.
Static depiction of the traits is too primitive method to capture the complexity of corporate psychopath.
It can has little or no predictive value for predicting types of attacks and enslavement methods used. The latter is the most important for IT professionals who need to deal with them on day to day basis. For some reason in many papers the term "psychopath" and "sociopath" are strongly associated with Mayberry Machiavellis type of bosses: conning, ruthless and deceitful.
IMHO the term is much broader then that and should include anybody who do not treat others as humans and who's aim is enslavement of subordinates much like cult leader attempts to enslave followers. This is the key disorder that distinguishes corporate psychopath from other types of "bad bosses" in modern organizations. IT organizations though have a disproportionate number of woman who are addicted to power and use each and every trick to went up the ladder. They are probably the most dangerous type of corporate psychopaths in IT environment as they are somewhat protected by affirmative actions laws.
Hare estimates that psychopaths account for only about 1% of the general population. But he says there might be a higher proportion in such areas as business, politics, law enforcement agencies, law firms, religious organizations and, yes, the media. He noted that "They have a predatory quality to them and the prey is always around certain areas".
I suspect that in IT environment the percentage can be an order of magnitude higher and may well exceed 10% mark. Large IT organizations are a perfect place for corporate psychopath to flourish as political skills not the competence are key for the path to the top. IT environment is a perfect setting for a corporate psychopath as most IT professionals lack social skills and as such are a pretty easy prey.
According to a recent (and very good) Fast Company article Is Your Boss a Psychopath by Alan Deutschman psychopaths – defined as those unburdened by conscience who selfishly use people “callously and remorselessly for their own ends” –- don’t merely exist in corporate America, but are now more than ever harbored in the business environment. In his study involving a half-dozen companies, renowned industrial psychologist Paul Babiak found that the rapid changes the economy has recently undergone have fed corporate psychopaths, who thrive on the thrills of fast transformations.
After they became entrenched is it very difficult to smoke out these people and give them the boot. Especially in corporate IT were the level of competence among other managers is not that high to mark a deviant with a black mark. One of the problems in identifying the corporate psychopath is that it's a world in which some of the defining characteristics are commonplace.
Many successful managers and executives can, for example, be grandiose and narcissistic; but that doesn't necessarily mean they're psychopaths.
Similarly, many organizations are set up in ways that foster these kinds of behaviors. The key here is probably the level of competence. Psychopath are usually incompetents who using ruthless and Machiavellian behavior try to climb the corporate ladder.
Their penetration in organization is usually staged in several phases:
The entry phase, in which the psychopath charms the hiring team into selecting him or her for the job.
The assessment phase.
Here, the psychopathic employee identifies the potential support network of that consist of:
Patrons (those who will protect and defend the psychopath),
Pawns (those who can be unwittingly manipulated into using their power in service of the psychopath's aims), Organizational Police (staff in such control functions as audit, security, human resources who might get in the way).
The manipulation phase:
the psychopath works the patrons and pawns, building the influence network through close and intense one-on-one relationships and at the same time moving up the organization.
Confrontation phase.
Individuals no longer deemed useful discover they've been wiped, relegated from close friend to Patsy.
Two factions start forming:
Influential supporters (Pawns and Patrons);
Powerless detractors (Patsies and Police).
Cuckoo egg stage.
That's when all that planning and manipulation pays off - the patrons are betrayed, the boss is shoved aside and the psychopath moves in.
As for victims of corporate psychopaths there is very little that they can do to regain control of their career other than leave their job altogether. You cannot negotiate with this kind of bully.
First, because they are psychopaths and as such do not consider you to be a human, and the second they are extremely good at pulling the wool over their employers' eyes.
In fact, if you try to negotiate or mediate, they will simply see you as vulnerable, which can put you in even more danger.
As most of them are petty sadists they get their kicks out of causing other people pain, so a vulnerable person is a prime target.
Research conducted by Field has identified four types of "serial bully" in the workplace with the most dangerous type to be so called the "sociopath".
"The sociopath - which is short for 'socialized psychopath' - is basically my term for the corporate psychopath.
I just chose to emphasize the 'socialized' aspect because these people have brought their behavior to just within what is socially and legally acceptable."
Sociopaths tend to be promoted to middle, or just above, middle management and while they often gravitate towards roles in business, the media, law and politics -
where scheming and bullying is just part of everyday working lifethey became visible in others sectors too and first of all in education and academic research.
That's because they prey on vulnerable people and vulnerable people often choose to work in this sector.
Now, because the pace of business has accelerated so much, only organizations that move fast can survive. It also makes those organization vulnerable to the infection by corporate psychopaths.
Not all corporate psychopaths get away with their antics, however.
Alan Ross recalls working for a particularly mercenary one in an investment bank. "I was just out of university and she almost screwed me up completely," he says. "She had ambitions to move into a new area of work and did this primarily by getting her researchers - us - to translate and plagiarize equity research from all the continental banks and sell it as her own research. This proved highly successful and she was getting a name for herself as an expert."
Just before she was offered a major job in her new "expert" role, however, Ross decided to put an end to her reign of terror. "First we supplied a dossier to a magazine, which duly printed an exposé of her.
Finally, to rub it right in, we sent copies of the article to every fund manager she ever had dealings with - i.e. all the bank's best and wealthiest customers. Job done - she was suspended pending an investigation and then sacked."
Although I am skeptical about trait enumeration exercises I still consider it valuable for gaining understanding of some typical pattern of behaviors. You can see the result of my exercise on this topic here.
Of course this is a compilation, but this "individualized compilation" that includes some prominent features of psychopath that I dealt with. Please note that you need to check list on all categories described above in order to see a bigger picture.
Each psychopath is different from the other.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
ESPEC environmental chamber .. manager training
Geee.. 1st you get your training from thomas bannach..
then you turn into.. a Keven bannach..
just another generation of holland michigan whores..
Geee... i didn't want to lie..."BUT they TOLD ME 2....
ESPEC Regional Sales Manager at Michigan factory. Kevin Bannach 877-463-7732 /next Generation!!
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