Corporate psychopathy: can ‘search and destroy’ and ‘hearts and minds’ metaphors from military strategy guide practical HRM solutions?
Corporate psychopathy: can ‘search and destroy’ and ‘hearts and minds’ metaphors from military strategy guide practical HRM solutions?
Corporate psychopathy (CP) thrives as perhaps the most significant threat to ethical corporate behaviour around the world. We argue that Human Resources Management (HRM) professionals should formulate strategic solutions metaphorically by balancing what strategic military planners famously call ‘Search and Destroy’ (SD) and ‘Hearts and Minds’ (HM) counter-terrorist strategy. We argue that these military metaphors offer creative inspiration to help academics and practitioners theorise CP in richer, more reflective, and more balanced and complementary ways. An appreciation of both metaphors is likely to favour the use of hybrid strategies comprising SD and HM elements, which may provide the best HRM solutions to CP for the same reasons as the military now considers parallel hybrid solutions optimal for combating terrorist and guerrilla insurgency.
hrm strategy, corporate psychopathy, metaphor, machiavellianism, narcissism, the dark triad
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Marshall, A.
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Ashleigh, M.J.
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Baden, D.
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Ojiako, Udechukwu
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Guidi, M.
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May 2015
Marshall, A.
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Ashleigh, M.J.
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Baden, D.
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Ojiako, Udechukwu
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Guidi, M.
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Marshall, A., Ashleigh, M.J., Baden, D., Ojiako, Udechukwu and Guidi, M.
(2015)
Corporate psychopathy: can ‘search and destroy’ and ‘hearts and minds’ metaphors from military strategy guide practical HRM solutions?
Journal of Business Ethics, 128 (3), .
(doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2117-8).
Abstract
Corporate psychopathy (CP) thrives as perhaps the most significant threat to ethical corporate behaviour around the world. We argue that Human Resources Management (HRM) professionals should formulate strategic solutions metaphorically by balancing what strategic military planners famously call ‘Search and Destroy’ (SD) and ‘Hearts and Minds’ (HM) counter-terrorist strategy. We argue that these military metaphors offer creative inspiration to help academics and practitioners theorise CP in richer, more reflective, and more balanced and complementary ways. An appreciation of both metaphors is likely to favour the use of hybrid strategies comprising SD and HM elements, which may provide the best HRM solutions to CP for the same reasons as the military now considers parallel hybrid solutions optimal for combating terrorist and guerrilla insurgency.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 February 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 March 2014
Published date: May 2015
Keywords:
hrm strategy, corporate psychopathy, metaphor, machiavellianism, narcissism, the dark triad
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Centre for Relational Leadership & Change
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ISSN: 0167-4544
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