Executive Psychopaths. Abusive Behaviour of the Management

The article presents the characteristics of “executive psychopaths”, showing that the current business environment “predisposes” individuals with “pathological” features of personality to holding the highest posts within organisations. The most important factors that enable a diagnosis of such types of leaders have also been described. Moreover, it has been suggested that the most common behaviours demonstrated by the “executive psychopaths” involve mobbing, bullying, sexual harassment and political behaviours. A variety of forms of such abusive behaviour have been described together with their consequences for the employees