The Business Talk article “Dreaded traits to look out for in would-be supervisor” the other week stirred up quite a lot of interest among the Business Daily readers. The article discussed how to utilise a job interview to assess whether a potential manager may or may not hold severely negative dark triad personality traits that would warrant a prospective job intolerable.
We all know about standard personality traits such as the OCEAN Big 5 personality traits of openness, consciousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. However, a deeper dismal additional three traits exist in a subset of the general population, including narcissism that we see in someone who has a sense of superiority, entitlement, and feeling uncommonly grand.
Additionally, the often quoted but frequently misunderstood Machiavellianism involves manipulative behaviours that focus on their own self-interest and personal gain. Lastly, psychopathy includes impulsivity, complete lack of empathy for others or remorse for their own actions that you can actually see through general callousness.
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