Dimensions
152 x 229 x 22mm
A revealing look a psychopaths in the workplace -- how to spot their destructive behaviour and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organisation -- by the author of the landmark work 'Without Conscience', which defined psychopathy.
Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not.
We'd like to think if we met someone who was completely without conscience -- someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes -- we would recognise it. In popular culture, the image of they psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world.
Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of 'Without Conscience', is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organisational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviours, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles.
'Snakes in Suits' is a compelling, frightening and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day to day.
