Perceptions of Principals and Teachers on the Level of Organizational Narcissism, High Schools in Sakarya Province Sample

Both private and public high schools including general high schools, science and Anatolian high schools have constituted the universe of this study. The sample, a total of 299 teaching stuff, were selected those specified high schools’ including 46 managers and 253 teachers of 299 people formed the research sample. The results of the research showed that socio-economic level and academic achievement linearly related to organizational narcissism. Because the level of organizational narcissism of private schools were higher than those of the public schools and the level of organizational narcissism of Anatolian and science high schools for which their teachers and students are selected via a national entrance and placement examination were higher than those of general high schools.This research examining the level of organizational narcissism and its relations to some variables was completed by the help of data picked from 18 high schools in Sakarya province. For some reasons, such as having a perception and questionable appreciation of students levels and scores in various exams (national or regional) are equivalent to school achievement, criticizing schools that don’t have resembling scores, and differences and variances about resources use, private high schools have higher levels of narcissistic characteristics than state high schools, state high schools for which teachers and students are selected via a national entrance and placement examination have higher levels of narcissistic characteristics than other state schools in which no such an exam is conducted