The Principals’ Ethical Leadership and Teachers’ Job Engagement

The purpose of this study was to determine if any significant relationships existed between principals ethicalleadership as measured by Ethical Leadership Scale (Brown & Trevino, 2005) and high school teachers jobengagement as gauged by Job Engagement scale (Schaufeli and et al., 2002) of two educational district in Sanandajin the 2014-2015 academic year. The sample involved 343 Iranian high school teachers identified among 686teachers through a random sampling process. These teachers completed two questionnaires. Means and standarddeviations of the teachers’ scores determined the ethical leadership behavior of school principals and the level of jobengagement among high school teachers in Sanandaj. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient revealedstatistically significant relationships between principals’ ethical leadership and teachers’ job engagement. Multipleregression analysis provided closer scrutiny of the data. In terms of the three components of ethical leadership(respect employees, modeling, moral sensitivity in practice), Job Engagement was predicted by moral sensitivity inpractice category but wasn’t predicted by respect employees and Modeling categories. Clarification of thisrelationship can identify implications for educational policy and decision making. Future research should explore theuse of longitudinal or qualitative research methodology to study the variables of this study in greater depth.

Keywords:

ethical leadership , job engagement , teachers