Relationship between Psychopath Management and Organizational Reputation with Mediating of Abusive Supervision and Social Responsibility

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Abstract
Psychopath management, as a form of ineffective leadership, can have a negative impact on reputation and its organizational antecedents. There fore the purpose of this paper is to examine how Psychopath management indirectly through the manifestation of abusive supervision and the decline of social responsibility undermine corporates reputation. The research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection is descriptive correlational. To collect the research data, standard questionnaires of Corporate psychopathy of Mathieu etal (2014), abusive supervision of Tepper (2000), social responsibility of Lii & Lee (2012) and organizational reputation  of Welch & Beatty (2009) were used. The statistical population of the study consisted of all employees of the companies operating in the metal industries of Kerman, whom 350 of them were selected by simple random sampling. Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability were used to confirm the reliability of the questionnaires, which was higher than 0.7 for all four questionnaires. The values ​​obtained for convergent validity also indicated the validity of the questionnaires. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling using PLS software. The findings indicate that with the presence of psychopath managers, the rate of abusive supervisory behaviors increases and the level of employees perceived social responsibility decreases. Also, Although there was no direct relationship between Psychopath management and organizational reputation, there is evidence to suggest that Psychopath management indirectly affects corporate reputation through the manifestation of abusive supervision and a decrease in the level of social responsibility.
Introduction
Corporate reputation is defined as the overall evaluation of stakeholders from images created through the activities, communications, and symbolic behavior of the company over time (Gotsi & Wilson, 2001).Corporate reputation is a unique resource that can create positive financial performance and provide a competitive advantage (Weng & Chen, 2017). In this regard, it is important to note that although the company's reputation has grown over the years, it can in the very short term be destroyed by ineffective management and in addition to direct costs, it may also lead to a decline in the market value of stocks (Linthicum etal. ., 2010). In other words, resolving disputes over the cost of accepting social responsibility, safety, and care, despite their impact on improving company reputation (Aksak etal., 2016), may be unilaterally resolved individually by tyrannical, cruel, and immoral managers such as psychopaths who are likely to be in high positions Compared to front-line managers (Boddy, 2012). Therefore, this study aimed to focus on the relationship between the behavior of business leaders with the psychological characteristics of psychopath individuals. While the behavior and policies of individuals and in particular psychopath managers may seem to be in line with organizational aspirations for success, but at the expense of ethical and spiritual issues, they may also have undesirable consequences, such as the decline of reputation and social responsibility of the organization (Gudmundsson & Southey, 2011). Therefore, the present study attempted to investigate the potential consequences of the presence of psychopath managers on corporate reputation through abusive supervisory behaviors and corporate social irresponsibility. In the following, the literature review of research and development of hypotheses are presented.
Case study
The statistical population of the study consisted of all employees of the companies operating in the metal industries of Kerman, whom 350 of them were selected by simple random sampling.
Materials and Methods
The present study is applied in term of purpose and is descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. Participants rated their supervisors' psychotic attributes with the corporate psychopath scale proposed by Mathieu et al., 2014.Also for measuring other research constructs, abusive leadership questionnaire (Tepper, 2000), social responsibility questionnaire (Lii & Lee, 2012) and organizational reputation questionnaire (Walsh & Beaty, 2009) were used. Content validity and construct validity were used to assess the validity of the questionnaire. Also, for each construct, two indices of average variance extracted (AVE) and composite reliability (CR) were calculated respectively to measure construct validity and reliability. Finally, data were analyzed by SPSS 19 software as well as PLS 2 and LISREL 8.8 soft wares.
Discussion and Results
Based on the evidence, it can be concluded that the direct relationship between all variables of research, except the relationship between psychopath management with organizational reputation is significant. Also, the evidence suggests that the absolute value of the Sobel test, respectively, to explain the mediating role of abusive supervision in the relationship between psychopath attributes of management with organizational reputation and the mediating role of corporate social responsibility between psychopath management with organizational reputation It is greater than 1.96 (equal to 2.48 and 3.16).  Thus, it can be argued that the presence of psychopath management is gradually eroding the company's reputation foundations through the manifestation of abusive supervisory behaviors and the decline in perception of corporate social responsibility by employees.
Conclusion
The results of present study showed that there is a significant relationship between the psychotic properties of management and abusive supervision. The results of the data obtained from the respondents confirm that fear, abuse and bullying can be mentioned as obvious traits of psychopath managers in the present study. Evidence also shows that with the presence of psychopath management, all components of social responsibility construct have shown a significant turn in the negative direction. Further, the results showed that abusive supervision was associated with decline in organizational reputation. Finally, the results indicate that although the psychotic properties of management did not directly influence organizational reputation decline, But the evidence confirms the influence of psychotic characteristics of management on organizational reputation through the mediating variables abusive supervision and corporate social responsibility.