Dark Sides of Business and Higher Education Management

There are several reasons for that. The very first reason has been provided by the knowhow (practice) in management, since the last decade has been abundant in numerous examples of corruption scandals in modern organizations and instances of management misconduct that have eroded public faith (such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, Arthur Andersen, Parmalat). It made us realize that there is highly active dark side to organizations that is quite unknown in management studies. However majority of the research and scientific publications on business and education management have been focusing on the positive, even romantic aspects of the organizations, leaders’ behavior, the analysis of the positive influence of these behaviours on the members of a given organization and organizations as a whole. In current book and journal publications the "dark side" is pursuit as abnormal, dysfunctional or pathological aspects of business and education while the "dark side" is not exceptional; it is part of the normal community of everyday organizational activities. The Second, research on the "dark side " is a new, emerging source of research in the area of Business and Higher Education Management. The Third one can observe a significant gap in the market of scientific publications, both nonserial publications and periodicals in the abovediscussed topics. Based on our personal experience, it may be the first book collection on this subject in the world. The Fourth it is virtually impossible to carry all the works and research on the development of positive, bright sides of business and higher education without a thorough knowledge and understanding of the destructive, dark sides organization that have led and still lead to the collapse of many organizations and a decline in public confidence in the corporations and their leaders