Medical machiavellianism in Poland : the dark side of creativity

Abstract

The author determined the chosen symptoms of the medical Machiavellianism - especially in the relation medical representative - doctor. High level of Machiavellianism, particularly in the pharmaceutical companies, is a valued trait of a worker. A medical representative with high level of morality will not be able to purposefully and deliberately misinform the doctor (while presenting processed by the marketing and thus unreliable research about the medicine's effects). In the current world of the developed civilizations the ethical standards (or rather lack of thereof) seem to be dictated by the companies. The business (social) psychology in a broad sense yields to the companies' expectations and they believe that every mean to gain the success and generate profit is appropriate. For the companies the ethics - utilitarianism relation has only one meaning and unscrupulous psychologists "turn" the workers of those companies into undivided (robbed of autonomy) and Machiavellian people oriented only towards gaining the profit - no matter the price

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