Shady Strategic Behavior: Recognizing Strategic Followership of Dark Triad Followers
从追随者特质视角出发，研究黑暗三联征（自恋、马基雅维利主义、精神病态）如何影响追随者的战略行为，指出其负面效应，并提出识别信号及缓解因素，对管理者识别和应对此类行为有参考价值。
The importance of strategic behavior in organizations has long been recognized. However, so far the literature has primarily focused on leaders’ strategic behavior, largely ignoring followers’ strategic behavior. In this paper, we take a follower trait perspective on strategic follower behavior, specifically focusing on how followers’ dark triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) influence their strategic behavior. We argue that dark triad–related strategic follower behavior is likely to have negative effects for fellow organizational members and the organization as a whole. We also present “red flag” behaviors that may signal followers’ tendencies to engage in shady strategic behaviors, then put forward factors that may mitigate or increase the occurrence of shady strategic behaviors by followers scoring high on dark triad traits, focusing especially on follower attributes and specifics of the organizational context. Finally, we discuss if and how followers’ dark triad traits could benefit the organization and highlight emerging issues in research on strategic follower behavior.