Psychopathy is a popular term
often used to refer to a person characterized by reduced fear, a lack of
empathy, cold-heartedness, egocentricity, superficial charm, manipulative,
irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, antisocial behavior, a lack of
remorse, and a parasitic lifestyle. (Wikipedia).
Psychopaths are both male and female, but more men are psychopaths than women.
They exist in all countries, races, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Some are intelligent, while others have average or below-average intelligence.
Some belongs to improvise back ground while other are down trodden or middle
class. Their violence continues till the age of 50 then tappers off.
After surfing on Internet, books, different articles and comments, I came on the
point that psychopaths are one of a unique personality disorder which is an open
alarm for the society as well as for organization. There traits can be
beneficial for the organization to some extant but we can't neglect the dark
side. They only do what they want; disregarding what sort of problems an
organization can face through their decisions. Although they are executive and
found in most of the senior managing positions which is an alarming situation
for the organization.
Organizational can’t neglect its executive or can’t fire them until and unless
they get to know what psychopathic manager has done wrong. Organization must
have a strong cultures, policies, structure and norms which restrict everyone
not to go beyond it. If a company wants to avoid dominated by such ruthless and
callous person, than it should focus on diversity. This will help to increase
loyalty with organization rather than self interest.
In short we can say that psychopaths are open threat for the organization. There
are pros and cons for having such person in organization, but its overall
attributes are not so much in favor for the company. If an organization wants to
continue with psychopaths, than it should take some serious notes and make some
strategic plan to avoid in any uncertain situation.