Ciemna triada osobowości, postawy wobec pracy i zachowania organizacyjne

The aim of the present work is to analyze the relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits, work attitudes and organizational behaviors from the interactionist perspective. The theoretical part contains four chapters. The first one presents two basic approaches used to describe personality in the workplace: the trait approach and the interactionist approach. This chapter stresses the importance of distinguishing between `bright` and `dark` personality traits in the work environment. Moreover, it presents the main concepts raised within the framework of the interactionist approach to personality research in the work context, including the trait activation theory. The second chapter presents the concept of the Dark Triad of personality understood as a construct including three separate, `dark` personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. It describes the unificationist and discriminatory perspectives in the Dark Triad studies, compares the Dark Triad to different personality models, presents the major problems in measurement of the Dark Triad traits and the most important behavioral correlates of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. In addition, the issues of how people with `Dark Triad` personalities operate in the work environment were discussed. The third chapter describes work attitudes: job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It presents the definitions of both constructs, as well as their personal and situational determinants along with the nature of relations between the Dark Triad of personality traits and work attitudes. The fourth chapter focuses on two forms of voluntary behaviors in the workplace: organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior. It discusses major terminological issues regarding work behaviors, along with three categories of determinants of work behaviors: work attitudes, situational factors and personal factors, including the Dark Triad personality traits. The next three chapters constitute the empirical part of the work. The first of them discusses the methodological basis of the author`s own study, the second one describes the obtained results, whereas the third one is dedicated to its interpretation. The majority of hypotheses concerning direct relationships between Dark Triad personality traits, work attitudes and organizational behaviors were confirmed. The study demonstrated that two situational factors (power in organization understood as formal position in the organization and interpersonal conflict in the workplace) served as moderators of the relations between Dark Triad personality traits and work attitudes along with organizational behaviors. Moreover, the author reported individual mediating effects of work attitudes on the relationships between Dark Triad personality traits and organizational behaviors. Taking into account the obtained results, a modification of the research model was proposed, including the direct associations between situational factors, work attitudes and organizational behaviors