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Narcissism in the Workplace
03/23/2018 Make changes from Peer Review

 IDEAS FOR CONTENT: 

Sebastian:

Screening/Evaluating Employees for Narcissistic Traits

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201803/why-toxic-people-get-ahead

Dealing with Narcissists Effectively

Gray Rock method - Emotionally neutral responses, especially relevant to workplace situations where narcissist is in position of power of you, can’t leave relationship easily.

https://www.aconsciousrethink.com/6158/gray-rock-method-dealing-narcissist - Find better source that discusses this strategy for dealing with narcissists http://lindenclinicalpsychology.com.au/how-to-use-the-grey-rock-method-for-toxic-behaviours/ may be a better source

Gray Rock method: One method for dealing with narcissism in the workplace or overall is the gray rock method, branching from the phrase, "You can't get blood from a stone." Techniques include monotone, emotionally void speaking patterns, avoidance of addressing either party's personal life, addressing only inconsequential topics, and not engaging in stories or information with dramatic intent designed to draw your interest. For greatest effect, the user of the Gray Rock technique cannot allow the narcissist to know the technique is in use; if it is indicated that they are being manipulated, particularly volatile individuals may react with explosions to try to get the user of the technique to break.

Narcissistic Supply: Narcissistic supply is the idea that a narcissist needs input from those in the narcissist's environment to feed the narcissist's ego, and that if an individual is not a source of narcissistic supply, the individual has no use to the narcissist and can be easily discarded. Another facet of this theory is that, since narcissists and other personality disorders have issues with personal boundaries, that an individual who is seen as a source of narcissistic supply is considered an extension of the narcissist's ego and treated as a part of the narcissist. [source is from a book I currently only have excerpts of]

Other findings

Gaslighting Gaslighting is a psychological manipulation technique whose base function is to make the victim doubt their reality using repeated and flat denial of objective facts. It is not necessarily used to replace the victim's reality with the manipulator's [this has a name I will find later], but simply to force the victim into questioning their sanity. This technique is often used by narcissists and other abusers, but is also seen widely in politics.[chronicle source]

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/01/12/how-old-is-gaslight https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gaslight

Other common/definitive manipulation techniques Slwx2d (talk) 02:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Alex:

Perfectionism: Perfectionism can come in many different forms, with several specific types being identified in research. (Hewitt and Flett (1991)) Narcissists tend to be very high in Self-oriented perfectionism, in which you are very demanding of yourself in your actions. This results in a series of related behaviors called perfectionist self presentation, which is a constant promoting of a perfect image of yourself to your peers, and a refusal to display of imperfections to other people.(Hewitt et al., 2003)````

Sexual Harassment: With strong links to sexual harassment being drawn with willingness to exploit others (Lee et al., 2003), Lower levels of honest-Humility, (Jones & Paulhus, 2011) ego centrism, (Jones & Paulhus, 2011) The presence of these traits in narcissistic individuals makes narcissism at least tangentally related to this problem. Additional research has also been done that directly correlates narcissism with a proclivity to engage in sexual harassment ( Zeigler-Hill et al, 2016)````

Bullying: Workplace Bullying can be a serious problem for organizations, and Narcissistic people in the organization can exacerbate this problem. Narcissism can directly contribute to aggression (Washburn, McMahon, King, Reinecke, & Silver, 2004) thanks to a relatively low self esteem that can be threatened at minor insults. This results in direct aggression and confrontational action on the part of the narcissist. (Kerig & Stellwagen, 2010) ````

Rudeness - Profanity, Inconsiderate, Putdowns,

Social Incompetence

Delinquency

Rhys:

Self-evaluation is inconsistent with other’s perceptions

- Narcissistic individuals tend to impress people upon first meeting. Often, however, people acquainted with the narcissist report much lower levels of esteem towards the individual. The narcissist, however, is likely to hold themselves in higher regard than the people around them. This means they might rank their performance higher than their peers, whereas others would not (Sun W. Park and C. Randall Colvin, 2014).

Preference for Hierarchical Workplace Structures - narcissism is not a stable personality trait, but rather a manifestation dependent largely on the environment. Narcissism has been found to be slightly more prevalent among men, who also more commonly strive toward and are selected for top positions in extremely hierarchical institutions.

Millennials more narcissistic (entitled, etc.) Lower loyalty to organization, job-hopping

- Research suggest that narcissism is on the rise among young adults, especially business students (e.g., Robak, Chiffriller, & Zappone, 2007).

Benefits? Especially among Organization's Leaders (highly situational) Leadership/Authority is even built into understanding of narcissism

 Possible References  (please keep track of actual citations!)

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/stech/article/view/114260

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869869/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-be-yourself/201711/four-psychological-traits-sexual-harassers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656616300927

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-more-narcissistic-men-or-women/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869869/

https://davidburkus.com/2010/08/seven-things-to-expect-from-your-narcissistic-employee/

http://theweek.com/articles/736174/5-researchbacked-ways-deal-narcissists

https://pro.psychcentral.com/exhausted-woman/2017/07/how-narcissistic-bosses-dull-productivity/

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550616649241

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/02683940810904367

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104898430900174X

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/481789

http://amle.aom.org/content/9/1/119.short

Peer Review from Ajlpn6(Adam)
Super clean sandbox! Very well organized. I may look into formatting ours similarly. The separation in topics is clear. I like that you each have a space to add and can easily track what the other team members are doing.

Sebastian: Clean and clear break in information, very easy to follow. Glad you have some of your sources in your writing there so I can quickly get to them and know what they reference. Maybe look at rewording "Dealing with Narcissists". "Dealing" might take on a negative connotation. While narcissism is kind of a pain, I think something like "Working with Narcissists" might leave out some unwanted bias. Could you explain, shortly, what the saying, "You can't get blood from a stone" means? Or maybe link it in wikipedia to an article to explain it. I've never heard of the Grey Rock technique, but I know I've used it or have seen it in practice. Interesting! It still feels like there's some slight negative bias in that section. Maybe look into stating that it's a passive form of cooperating with a narcissist. If that's what it really is. Solid work though! Also look at using the word "narcissist" less in the first sentence of Narcissistic Supply. Would just clean that sentence up a bit.

Alex: Again, very clean sectioning. "and a refusal to allow displays of imperfect to other people", minor typo here, I assume you meant to say imperfection. You should try to hook up the actual citations to your points. Good call with the APA style referencing until then. I think besides that, all your points are pretty stead and fairly unbiased. I haven't looked at the sources so I'm not sure about how close the wording is. Make sure it's not too close! This is something I fret about often.

Rhys: Brief. All the seemingly important points are said. You should add more to the prevalence rates of men. Mostly because I'm interested to see what you find. I like the use of examples in parenthesis. Leaves me sure I understand the relationship. I saw this on reddit the other day. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201803/why-toxic-people-get-ahead Don't know if it would help you. Interesting read either way. I think we'll be using it for our Hexaco: Dark Triad section.

Suggestion for the reference section: Maybe put in parenthesis what these links apply to in your article. Just a suggestion, I don't know what all of them apply to.

Over all a pretty great work guys! Not that I know so much to think I'm a great reviewer, but in my opinion you guys are set to make a great contribution to the article. HupoEthos (talk) 03:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

I found a good meta-study for the claim than men are, on average, more narcissistic. I'm also filing through our other references to a.) try to find peer-reviewed aggregations of data on the topics and b.) add proper ref tags that will allow us to transplant nicely into the existing article Rhys Christian Anderson (talk) 05:25, 24 March 2018 (UTC)