TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ OPINIONS REGARDING ETHICAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS OF PROVINCIAL/DISTRICT NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATORS
ÖĞRETMEN VE OKUL YÖNETİCİLERİNİN GÖRÜŞLERİNE GÖRE İL/İLÇE MİLLİ EĞİTİM MÜDÜRLÜKLERİ YÖNETİCİLERİNİN ETİK LİDERLİK DAVRANIŞLARI

Author : Tuncay Yavuz ÖZDEMİR -- Mukadder BOYDAK ÖZAN - Ramazan YİRCİ
Number of pages : 509-527

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the degree of ethical leadership behaviours of provincial and district national educational administrators according to teachers and school administrators’ point of view. As a quantitative research, this study was carried out in the academic year of 2010-2011 with the participation of 371 teachers who were employed in elementary schools in Elazığ in Turkey. Ethical Leadership Questionnaire developed by Langlois (2007) has been used in the research. All the data was processed by SPSS statistical software. One way Anova, frequency and t test were used for the analysis. According to the findings of study, teachers and school administrators generally think that as the year of seniority increases, more teachers think that provincial and district national educational administrators act within the ethical standards. They are fair, committed to the legal regulations and impartial while they solve an ethical problem; however the provincial and district national educational administrators face ethical dilemmas when have a problem which is not explained in the legal regulations. The provincial and district national educational administrators try to resolve the ethical issues as soon as possible. According to the findings no significant difference among teachers and school administrators’ view of ethical leadership behaviours has been seen by gender and branch variables, it has been observed by seniority variable. As the year of seniority increases, more teachers and school administrators think that provincial administrators act within the ethical standards. 27,62 % of the teachers in the research have stated that they feel angry when they face an ethical problem at work whereas 25,60 % are humiliated to the ethical problems.

Keywords

Ethics, Ethical Leadership, Teachers, School Principals, Provincial And District National Educationa

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