TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF PRINCIPALS’ ETHICAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS AS CORRELATE OF THEIR COMMITMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

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Faculty: Arts
Department: Educational Management And Policy

CONTRIBUTORS:

Obiekwe, k.k;
Ezeugbor, C.O;

ABSTRACT:

This study determined the correlation between teachers’ perception of principals’ ethical leadership behaviours and their commitment in state owned secondary schools in Anambra State. The study was guided by five research questions and five null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Literature related to the study were reviewed and which exposed the need for the study. A correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. The population consisted of 6,328 teachers in the 257 state owned secondary schools in the state. A sample of 672 teachers was drawn using multi-stage sampling procedure. Data were collected using two instruments; Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS) which was adapted from Yilmaz (2006) and Teachers’ Commitment Scale (TCS) adapted from Allen, Meyer and Smith (1993). The instruments were validated by three experts who are lecturers in the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Internal consistency reliability indices of 0.75, 0.68, 0.71 and 0.74 were obtained for the four sections of ELS with an overall reliability index of 0.72 while 0.84 was obtained for TCM using Cronbach’s alpha method. Data analyses were done using Pearson’s Product Moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed among others that a substantial positive correlation existed between teachers’ perception of principals’ communicative ethics, climatic ethics, behavioural ethics and their commitment. A very high positive correlation existed between teachers’ perception of principals’ ethics in decision making and their commitment. The study also found that the nature of correlation that existed between teachers’ perception of principals’ communicative ethics, climatic ethics, behavioural ethics and their commitment was significant. The study recommended among others that secondary school principals should constantly display communicative, climatic and behavioural ethical behaviours in order to stimulate teachers’ sense of belonging and commitment to the school.