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This section brings together the main sets of findings from the theoretical and case study research. The research question set up was how managers are effective within organisations, and to what extent is the personality or psychopathy of a manager is a critical variable. As described below, the outcomes of the research have been limited by a number of constraints and errors, although some tentative conclusions can be drawn.
The conclusions split into two broad groups, first conclusions about the case study, that Hitler’s personal psychological pathology probably best fits an Asperger’s diagnosis, and secondly that the NSDAP party, and then the country following the enabling law, is best described as a criminal organisation.
The second group of conclusions relate more to the specific question in the research; proposing an alternative evolutionary model of “bad charisma” to the typologies in the literature; concluding that the psychopathy of the manager is not a critical variable but that their charisma is, and finally setting out the model of “managerial agency” that rests on the “object relations” model of structure and agency proposed in 3.3.3 above (itself a research contribution), and whch provides a theory of how managers are …show more content…
10.1 Hitler had Asperger’s.
In the case history some descriptive comments have been made about Hitler’s personality. In this section, some diagnostic comments are made, that conclude that Hitler was not psychopathic or psychotic, but that aspects of his personality may support an Asperger’s diagnosis.
10.1.1 Psychosis.
Hitler was not mad in the sense of his being formally psychotic. Citing the World Health Organisation International Classification of Diseases, he did not have
hallucinations, delusions, or a limited number of severe abnormalities of behaviour, such as … catatonic
This section brings together the main sets of findings from the theoretical and case study research. The research question set up was how managers are effective within organisations, and to what extent is the personality or psychopathy of a manager is a critical variable. As described below, the outcomes of the research have been limited by a number of constraints and errors, although some tentative conclusions can be drawn.
The conclusions split into two broad groups, first conclusions about the case study, that Hitler’s personal psychological pathology probably best fits an Asperger’s diagnosis, and secondly that the NSDAP party, and then the country following the enabling law, is best described as a criminal organisation.
The second group of conclusions relate more to the specific question in the research; proposing an alternative evolutionary model of “bad charisma” to the typologies in the literature; concluding that the psychopathy of the manager is not a critical variable but that their charisma is, and finally setting out the model of “managerial agency” that rests on the “object relations” model of structure and agency proposed in 3.3.3 above (itself a research contribution), and whch provides a theory of how managers are …show more content…
10.1 Hitler had Asperger’s.
In the case history some descriptive comments have been made about Hitler’s personality. In this section, some diagnostic comments are made, that conclude that Hitler was not psychopathic or psychotic, but that aspects of his personality may support an Asperger’s diagnosis.
10.1.1 Psychosis.
Hitler was not mad in the sense of his being formally psychotic. Citing the World Health Organisation International Classification of Diseases, he did not have
hallucinations, delusions, or a limited number of severe abnormalities of behaviour, such as … catatonic