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Article Evaluation: Narcissism In the Workplace
Everything in the article was pretty relevant, although I did get distracted when the article mentioned the other dark triadic personality traits, which lead me to going to look into what they other two were before I continued reading about Narcissism. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it got me slightly distracted.

Even though the word narcissist has a negative connotation attached to it, the article was fairly neutral. While it talked about bullying and narcissism overlapping, it also took aim to mention that there are productive narcissists, and that narcissists actually get rated highly in interviews. The article was more so factual on the personality of narcissists and their actions, rather than saying if they are good or bad people.

One point that literally had one sentence worth was the “impact on stress, absenteeism and staff turnover”. It does say that stress levels are relatively higher for employees that are around a classic narcissist, but that’s all it says. It does site an article where they got that information, but I think it would have been beneficial to elaborate more on why there is more stress which then leads to the absenteeism: is it just because they don’t like the narcissist, is it because they don’t feel like they need to be there because it seems the narcissist has it handled, etc? There’s also a section that is coping strategies for dealing with a narcissistic superior- but they only use one source for coping- it may have been interesting to see if there were more ways to cope, if someone proved one coping way to be useless- etc.

A lot of the citations and references were books, but the cites that I did check on and skim through seemed to be supporting the claims the article was making. There was no shortage of references though, and they seemed to be fairly reliable – as I didn’t have every book listed in the references, or any- but they had relevant titles as well as overviews. None of them seemed to be biased in anyway – more so straight to the point of what they are. There was one that was highlighted in blue, and I want to say it’s because it’s the only title that is listed as “Research” and “Opinion”, so it was set out from the rest.

The oldest piece of information came from 1997, which was only 21 years ago, which I would say is still useful information, therefore not outdated. I’m sure there is more information the article could elaborate on, but with the amount of sources there are, it’d probably be easy to dive in yourself and find what you are curious about. The article itself is rated at A C – so it’s not the best and most informative, as it’s missing important content and needs to be cleaned up, but it does have some references and reliable sources. It’s probably because it is part of a WikiProject and still being edited in 2018.

Adding to Narcissism In The Workplace
Notes: Some people will force themselves to relate to the narcissist to reduce anxiety. Narcissists start worrying more about praise and how they are perceived, than doing something that benefits everyone in that business.

What I added: A classic narcissist is more concerned with getting praised and how they are perceived, than doing what benefits all of the "stakeholders".