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.

The story of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1865 /

pt.1. From Chicago in Arkansas post, October, 1861 to January, 1863 / by Lucian B. Crooker -- pt.2. From Young's Point to Atlanta, January, 1863 to November, 1864 -- pt.3. From Atlanta to Chicago, November, 1864 to August, 1865 / by John G. Brown.

Batchelor-Turner letters, 1861-1864.

Chiefly letters from Benjamin Franklin Batchelor and his brother-inlaw, George Quincy Turner, to various relatives.

Medical support in divisions, separate brigades, and the armored cavalry regiment.

"Manual supersedes FM 8-15, January 1971.

Pictorial history Thirteenth regiment Vermont volunteers, war of 1861-1865 /

At end of volume are inserted two pamphlets entitled: "Report of the Sixth annual re-union of the Thirteenth Vermont volunteer association held at Northfield, June 22nd and 23rd, 1893..." (64 p.) and "Memorial days in Montpelier, Vt., 1924 program" (13 p.)

The History of the Fourth United States Cavalry : prepared and loyal.

Mode of access: Internet.

An account of the organization of the army of the United States;

I. Organization of the army. The general-in-chief of the army. General officers of the army.--II. General officers of the army (cont.) Cavalry and artillery. The foot service.

History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865 /

Reprint. Originally published: Madison, Wis. : Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891.

A system of tactics; or, Rules for the exercises and manœuvres of the cavalry and light infantry and riflemen of the United States.

Binder's title: Military tactics.

History of the United States cavalry, from the formation of the federal government to the 1st of June, 1863. To which is added a list of all the cavalry regiments, with the names of their commanders, which have been in the United States service since the breaking out of the rebellion.

Mode of access: Internet.

Signal tactics : assimilated to the tactics of artillery, cavalry and infantry, prepared for the use of officers and enlisted men of the military and naval forces of the United States and adapted for the use of the national guards and military academies /

Mode of access: Internet.

Civil War letters of Jabez L. Huntley to Amy Huntley, 1862-1864.

Cover title: Civil War letters of my grandfather, Jabez L. Huntley to his wife, Amy Lake Huntley and their children ...

History of the fourth regiment of Minnesota infantry volunteers during the great rebellion, 1861-1865,

Mode of access: Internet.

Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the relation of states; delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1860

The speech is a response by Hon. James H. Hammond as to whether or not the territorial governments established by Congress have the power to define and declare what shall be and what shall not be property within the territorial boundaries. The speech goes on to discuss colonists who went to newly purchased territory and claimed land as their own. He argues whether or not these people have sovereignty of the land over the government.