The Effect of the Dark Triad’s Role in benign, Malicious Envy and Organizational Revenge on Job Performance: The Case of Turkey

In toxic workplaces where individuals with dark triad personality traits exist, counterproductive behaviours occur, which negatively affects employee performance and therefore, organizational performance. This article aims to measure the effect of dark triad personality traits and feelings of benign and malicious envy on organizational revenge intention and the effect of all three negative emotions and behaviours on job performance. In this context, a research model and hypotheses were created with the assumption that the dark triad personality traits can affect the feelings of benign and malicious envy, and that the feelings of benign and malicious envy can have an impact on job performance by affecting the intention of organizational revenge. The model was tested on a sample of 313 academicians using structural equation modelling. In this study, where the quantitative method was applied, the dark triad personality, benign and malicious envy, organizational revenge intention and job performance scales were used. As a result of the research, it was found that dark triad positively affects benign and malicious envy, benign and malicious envy significantly and positively affect organizational revenge intention, and they significantly and negatively affect job performance. Additionally, it was seen that organizational revenge intention significantly and positively affects job performance. All the hypotheses considered were accepted. In this context, dark triad personality traits highlight the feelings of benign and malicious envy, and feelings of benign and malicious envy increase employees’ job performance by affecting the intention of organizational revenge. In the study, it was seen that the intention of organizational revenge also affects job performance positively with the effect of benign and malicious envy.