Ethics and Educational Leadership: A State of Affairs at the City School Bahawalpur, Pakistan (original) (raw)
2016, International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research
This research describes the impact of ethics on educational leadership. A questionnaire was prepared based on various ethical and unethical attributes collected through the interviews and relevant literature. These attributes are people orientation, fairness, power sharing, and concern for sustainability, ethical guidance, role classification, integrity, courageous, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The unethical behaviours included are 'commands respect,' external locus of control, personalized power, Machiavellianism, vindictive and cynicism. Forty members of teaching staff and managerial staff of two wings of The City School, Bahawalpur Campus were contacted for data collection. They were asked to endorse their responses on the questions keeping in view the leadership behaviours of their Heads and the line managers. The responses were collected, analyzed and presented in the form of data tables. The results suggest that leadership at The City School, Bahawalpur Cam...
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