Narcissism and Decision-Making Styles Principals

Narcissism is one of the personality disorders that exist in all people at various degrees. It is of great importance to know how narcissism affects managers of educational institutions. Considering this, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between narcissism and the decision-making styles of principals High schools of Mashhad, a city in Iran. To do so, a descriptive research method of the correlation type was applied. The statistical population includes all male and female high school principals in Mashhad. The sample size is 201, using Krejcie & Morgan table. In addition, a multi-stage cluster sampling method was used. To do this study, the two questionnaires of NPI-16 & decision making style (Victor Vroom) were applied. The validity of the questionnaires was verified and their reliability was proved by Cronbach's Alphas test. The results indicate that narcissism has a significant positive relationship with the authoritarian decision-making style and keeps a reversed relationship with the participative decision-making style. It has no significant relationship with the advisory decision-making style, though.