Machiavellianism workplace is the employment of cunning and duplicity in a business setting. It is an increasingly studied phenomenon. The root of the concept of Machiavellianism is the book "The Prince" by Machiavelli which lays out advice to rulers how to govern their subjects. Machiavellianism has been studied extensively over the past 40 years as a personality characteristic that shares features with manipulative leadership, and morally bankrupt tactics. It has in recent times been adapted and applied to the context of the workplace and organizations by many writers and academics. The Machiavellian typically only manipulates on occasions where it is necessary
Stefan Fröhlich (political scientist) Stefan Fröhlich (political scientist) Stefan Fröhlich (born 1958 in Bonn, Germany) is a German political scientist and professor for International Relations at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Emphasis in his work is on German foreign policy, transatlantic relations and US foreign policy, European foreign and security policy, and International Political Economy. From 1979 till 1985 Fröhlich studied political science, English studies, Hispanism and economics in Bonn, Paris, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Afterwards he worked as research associate for the German Bundestag till 1989 and as assistant lecturer in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn (1989–1994). After he completed