title: Corporate psychopathy and the full-range leadership model.
abstract: The B-Scan 360 is a relatively new, purpose-built measure of corporate psychopathy that addresses many of the issues inherent in studying psychopathy in organizations. The primary goal of the present study was to measure the relationship between employees' perception of psychopathic features in their supervisor and their rating of their supervisor on the Full-Range Model of Leadership. The second goal of the study was to test the B-Scan 360's factor structure and test its interrater reliability in an organizational sample. A total of 491 civic employees and 116 employees from a branch of a large financial company completed the B-Scan 360 as well as the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire on their direct supervisor. The B-Scan 360 and all of its four factors were positively correlated with passive leadership (Laissez-Faire leadership) and negatively correlated with positive leadership (both Transactional and Transformational leadership). Furthermore, results revealed the same four-factor structure and good interrater reliability for the B-Scan 360 in this business sample as previously reported for a general population. Overall, the results provide additional support for the B-Scan 360 as a measure of psychopathic traits in corporate settings.
authors.affiliation: Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada cynthia.mathieu@uqtr.ca.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mathieu
authors.affiliation: University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.affiliation: Anubis-Research, Hopewell Junction, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Babiak
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, and Darkstone Research Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Hare
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015588:Observer Variation; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: B-Scan 360; corporate psychopathy; leadership