Research & Publications
Learn about the Female Organisational Psychopath, also called the Workplace Psychopath, in this 42-page booklet by Dr Fiona M. Girkin. It covers how to recognise the Female Psychopath, the six stages she follows to infiltrate a workplace, and effective strategies to address the issues she creates.
This PhD thesis examined the presence and impact of female primary psychopaths in the Australian Community Services Sector (CSS) workplaces, through a mixed-method approach that engaged victims of toxic workplace behaviour by women.
The Tasmanian Welfare Workforce is a female-dominated industry that attracts people high in empathy. Studies have shown that when high numbers of women work together, they are more likely to experience bullying behaviour. The present study aimed to understand this concept and how bullying behaviour by females, toward females, can be psychologically harmful.
A public value framework has the potential to be used to measure outcomes in the community sector; however, real-world application is still required. This study provided evidence of a public value framework having the potential to be applied as an outcome measurement tool for CSOs.
Domestic violence is a human epidemic of power and control, not a gendered war, and until we stop erasing half the victims and half the perpetrators, nothing will change. This independent report is also summarised on YouTube.
This is a co-authored chapter (with Dr Sharyn Curran) of the Research Handbook on Corporate Psychopaths. The Chapter compares and contrasts the female and male psychopath, looking at real cases of female corporate psychopaths, including Melissa Caddick and Elizabeth Holmes.
If you are interested in reading this chapter, please contact Dr Fiona.
Through the lens of Kuhn's ideas concerning scientific paradigms, this paper examines two fields of research where findings were previously rejected by their disciplines: firstly, the existence of bacteria in the human stomach as a cause of ulcers, and secondly, the existence of psychopaths in corporations as a cause of organisational dysfunction.
