Abstract
Purpose: Machiavellianism is investigated many times in order to explain different concepts in the literature. Similarly in previous research, we aim to investigate Machiavellianism and its relationship with behavioral outcome of individuals; psychological as well as physical withdrawal behavior and antagonistic behavior of individuals. Taking individuals’ Machiavellianism level into account, we also purpose to delineate whether high and low Machiavellian individuals exhibit different level psychological withdrawal, physical withdrawal and antagonistic behavior. In addition, demographic variable differences in psychological withdrawal behavior, physical withdrawal behavior and antagonistic behavior fall into scope of this research. Methodology: Sampling 360 MBA students, we conducted ordinal logistic regression analysis and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Findings: Results show that there is significant positive relationship between Machiavellianism and psychological withdrawal behavior, physical withdrawal behavior as well as antagonistic behavior. Implications of the present research indicate that high Mach individuals are 3,37 times more likely to represent upper level psychological withdrawal behavior than low Mach individuals. Moreover, high Mach individuals are 1,56 times more likely to exhibit upper level physical withdrawal behavior than low Mach individuals. Furthermore, high Mach individuals are 2,47 times more likely to represent upper level antagonistic behavior than low Mach individuals. Analyses with demographic variables represent that individuals’ Machiavellian personality, psychological withdrawal behavior, physical withdrawal behavior and antagonistic behavior differentiates in terms of individuals’ ages, experience levels and genders. Results indicated that individuals younger than 30 years old incline to represent higher Machiavellian personality than those who are in the age group of 31-35 years as well as the ones older than 36. Likewise, individuals younger than 30 prone to exhibit higher psychological withdrawal behavior than those older than 36. In addition, individuals who have between 0-5 years of experience incline to represent higher Machiavellian personality than those have above 16 years of experience. Also, the tendency of males to exhibit physical withdrawal behavior is higher than of females. Originality: Investigating the difference between high and low Mach individuals’ psychological withdrawal, physical withdrawal and antagonistic behavior tendency in the work place, present research offers vital contributions to the literature.