ISSN: 2265-6294

Narcissistic leadership and its impact on the quality of work life

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Mays Riyad Shaker, Abdulsalam Ali Hussein Alnoori

Abstract

The research dealt with the independent variable of narcissistic leadership in its dimensions (authority, arrogance, and self-admiration), and the dependent variable, the quality of work life in its dimensions (sufficiency and fairness of salary, healthy working conditions, improving skills and job growth, job security, work-life balance, and participation in decisionmaking). According to the foregoing, the current research adopts an integrative approach, describing and analyzing, and comparing the prediction of the importance of research variables and explaining the impact of the empowerment strategy in stimulating intellectual capital. The study aimed to answer questions in the light of crystallizing the theoretical framework, and formulating five hypotheses that tested the relationships in connection, difference and influence, and the research was based on a set of ready-made global standards that were developed, and the research was applied in the Baghdad Electricity Distribution Directorate / Karkh, and data was collected from a sample of (104) An individual represented in a community consisting of (managers of divisions and units in the researched directorate) in five sectors that represent the departments of the Baghdad / Karkh Electricity Distribution Directorate, and adopted advanced descriptive and inferential statistical methods on the system (SPSS V.26). The results of testing, analyzing and interpreting hypotheses were, but there are significant correlations at (0.01) for narcissistic leadership and its dimensions with the quality of work life in its dimensions, and the variation of the importance of dimensions of narcissistic leadership in terms of their direct and indirect effects on the quality of work life and vice versa. The research ended with a number of conclusions. The results of the research, the most important of which was the existence of an inverse significant relationship between the narcissistic leadership variable and the quality of work life, and the research concluded a set of recommendations.

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