THE DARK PERSONALITY AND JOB SUCCESS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY: USE OF INTERPERSONAL MANIPULATION IN THE WORKPLACE

This dissertation relates job desires and outcomes to the Dark Personality (Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Low Agreeableness, Low Honesty-Humility) in the United States Army. It purports that individuals high on the Dark Personality desire more power, money, and status, and that they obtain jobs that afford them these luxuries by using manipulation at work. Two pilot studies used samples of United States Army members to create and test index variables: Dark Personality, Total Manipulation in the workplace, Desire for Job Success, and Total Job Success in the Army. Individual personality traits, manipulation tactics, and job desires were examined in secondary analyses. Using a sample of 468 United States Army Members, central analyses indicated that Army members high on the Dark Personality desired Job Success. Likewise, army members higher on the Dark Personality used more Manipulation tactics at work, including the egregious tactics. Yet, using more Manipulation tactics at work predicted lower levels of Job Success in the Army. Most manipulation tactics had a negative impact on Job Success, with the exception of soft tactics like Reason and Responsibility Invocation. Together, these results indicate that selective use of soft manipulation predicted Job Success, but use of more manipulation tactics predicted less Job Success in the Army. Curvilinear results indicated that being either very low or very high on the Dark Personality predicted more Job Success in the Army, whereas having intermediate levels of the Dark Personality predicted less Job Success. Finally, possessing the Dark Personality and using more Manipulation tactics at work, together, predicted less Job Success in the Army. Collectively, the results indicate that army members with intermediate levels of the Dark Personality want more powerful and high paying jobs, yet their strategy of manipulating their coworkers to move up the job ladder does not result in higher ranking, higher paying Army positions. However, Army members highest on the Dark Personality achieved job success, defying the maladaptive influence that antisocial personality traits and manipulative behaviour had on job success for most Army members. Therefore, this dissertation indicates that successful corporate scoundrels exist in the Army, but there are few of them.

A influência da luz na germinação das sementes de rabanete (Raphanus sativus, L.)

A germinação das sementes depende de diversos fatores. Estes podem ser dependentes da própria semente: intrínsecos (tais como a constituição da semente ou a sua maturidade e vitalidade), ou extrínsecos (tais como a luz, a temperatura, a humidade, o oxigénio e as características do solo). No presente trabalho pretendemos estudar o efeito de um desses fatores - a luz - na germinação das sementes de rabanete (Raphanus sativus, L.). Sabe-se que certas sementes só germinam à luz (fotoblastismo positivo), outras só o fazem às escuras (fotoblastismo negativo) e que outras são indiferentes ao efeito da luz no que se refere à germinação (fotoblastismo neutro) (Sousa, Braga, Braga & Delachiave, 2008; Ribeiro et al., 2012). Com o nosso estudo pudemos perceber que as sementes do rabanete apresentam fotoblastismo neutro.

Bilateral Disputes – A dark cloud over the Balkans. CEPS Commentary, 24 January 2014

Countless bilateral disputes continue to plague the Balkan region; daily reminders of the region's troubled history. Not only are they the cause of tension between the countries of the region both inside and outside the EU, they also undermine efforts to integrate the region into the EU. To avoid the risk of instability and further erosion of the credibility of the EU's enlargement strategy, urgent action is required. The author sets out four recommendations for the EU to pursue without delay.

A New Settlement for the UK: A “Leap in the Dark”. Bruges European Economic Policy Briefings 39/2016

This paper examines the outcome of the negotiations for a new settlement concerning the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. It reviews the nature and possible consequences of the “substantial changes” that were demanded in the areas of economic governance, competitiveness, sovereignty, and immigration. We argue that the proposed arrangements do not amount to much and can prove harmful to the future of the EU. The paper is a follow-up to our analysis of the initial proposals, available under Bruges European Economic Policy Briefings, 38/2016.

Dark days,

Spec. Coll. PR 4699 F16c: With the author's Called back. Bristol, 1884.

Dark days /

Mode of access: Internet.

Researches on the germination of the pollen grain and the nutrition of the pollen tube /

Includes bibliographical references.

Will-o'-the-wisp, or, The shot in the dark : a comedy drama in three acts /

"Cast of characters as given at the first production at the National Theatre Comique, Cincinati, Ohio, under the management of Mr. Nat Hyams, Monday, December 18th, 1876."

Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizam

Manuscript, Islamic, Timurid; 8 1/2 in.x 4 39/64 in. (image); ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Preliminary memorandum on the Dark Horse and Saturday areas, Marysvale, Utah /

"Contract no. AT-(30-1)-702"--Page ii.

It is dark underground,

Mode of access: Internet.

A study of the effect of ionizing radiation on resistance, germination, and toxin synthesis of Clostridium botulinum spores, types A, B, and E

At head of title: The University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Dept. of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. Final report.

Mémoires sur l'influence de l'air et de diverses substances gazeuses dans la germination de différentes graines /

Mode of access: Internet.