In this season of continuing financial turmoil and organizational discontent, individuals are coming to realize that organizational life often consists of roughly equal portions of good and bad. The "dark side" of organizational life, in which power serves to constrain, deny, and demoralize, lurks just beneath the surface of every organization, waiting for just the right moment to rear its ugly head. In light of the recent continuing revelations of wrongdoing by once trusted business professionals and organizations, researchers are increasingly turning their attentions to the negative aspects of power use (e.g., Aquino & Byron, 2002; Lubit, 2o02), a development that many conclude is …