Recommendations for Companies on Dealing with the Dark Triad

In addition to knowledge and awareness, sustainably oriented companies should focus on optimizing their personnel selection and diagnostics, as well as employee leadership and development—even though very few HR managers possess a solid evidence-based know-how. The establishment of a supportive corporate culture also proves to be relevant, especially against the backdrop of increasingly complex structures of the VUCA world or self-organized agile teams, which provide room for manipulative strategies, thus enabling the development of less supportive subcultures and potentially counteracting the overarching goals of an organization.