Title: The moderating role of gender in the effect of the dark triad of personality on counterproductive work behaviour

Authors: Mehtap Öztürk

Addresses: Department of Management and Organization, Faculty of Business and Administrative Science, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to explore the effects of the Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy, which are considered the form the so-called dark triad (DT) of counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), and whether gender has a moderating role on these relations. The data were collected via a survey of 450 employees in the tourism sector in Turkey as a sample. The instruments were demographic information of employees, the counterproductive work behaviours scale (Spector et al., 2006) and the dark triad scale (Jonason and Webster, 2010). It was consequently determined that the dark triad has a positive and significant relationship with counterproductive work behaviours and gender plays a moderating role in this relationship. Moreover, it was determined that male employees have more dark triad personality characteristics than women, and as the dark triad tendency increases, so do male employees' counterproductive work behaviours, and to a greater extent than in women.

Keywords: dark triad; counterproductive work behaviours; CWBs; moderating role; interactional effect.

DOI: 10.1504/MEJM.2021.116446

Middle East Journal of Management, 2021 Vol.8 No.4, pp.386 - 403

Received: 29 Apr 2020
Accepted: 12 Jun 2020
Published online: 26 Jul 2021 *

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