Abstract
Ethical leadership has become prominent in the leadership literature recently. The aim of the current study was to assess school principals' ethical leadership behaviours in Turkish context. School principals' ethical leadership behaviours were measured by Ethical Leadership Scale, developed by Brown, Trevino and Harrison (2005), and adapted into Turkish by Tuna, Bircan and Yeşiltaş (2012). Internal consistency of the instrument was investigated by Cronbach's alpha value, and the construct validity of the scale was tested on LISREL by confirmatory factor analysis. Data was analysed by ttest and ANOVA. Findings revealed that participant teachers' opinions regarding school principals' ethical leadership behaviours did not differ in relation to gender, tenure and educational background. However, high school teachers were found to perceive that their school principals behaved more ethically than primary and secondary school principals. Results have been discussed along with the limitations of the study.
Highlights
Ethical conduct of leaders has been a research topic for numerous leadership styles and theories (Bachmann, 2016; Eisenbeiss, 2012; Northouse, 2013)
As for Aronson (2001), transformational leadership style is associated with deontological ethics whereas transactional leadership is correlated with teleology, and directive leadership seems to be connected to ethical egoism
The present study focused on ethical leadership behaviours of school principals based on teachers' perceptions
Summary
Ethical conduct of leaders has been a research topic for numerous leadership styles and theories (Bachmann, 2016; Eisenbeiss, 2012; Northouse, 2013). Lahey, Pepe and Nelson (2017) indicated that ethical principles are foundational to organizational values. Values such as democracy, Assessing School Principals' Ethical Leadership Behaviours | 43 equity and accountability are mainly emphasized in relation to ethical leadership (Galloway & Ishimaru, 2017). Aronson (2001) mentioned about two main ethical theories, namely, deontology and teleology, and considered directive, transactional and transformational leadership styles related to ethical leadership and its values. As for Aronson (2001), transformational leadership style is associated with deontological ethics whereas transactional leadership is correlated with teleology, and directive leadership seems to be connected to ethical egoism
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