Influence of principals ethical leadership behaviours on teachers' level of commitement (original) (raw)

The study was conducted to determine the influence of principals' ethical leadership behaviours on teachers' level of commitment in secondary schools in Anambra State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance, were formulated for the study. The population of the study consisted of 6,203 teachers (993 males and 5210 females) from the 256 secondary schools in Anambra State. The sample for the study consisted of 1,290 (645 males, 645 females) teachers chosen through simple random sampling. In each of the zones, 30% of the schools were sampled for the study (43 schools). In each of the schools, 15 males and 15 females were sampled, making a total of 1290 teachers. Data was collected using a 36-item questionnaire grouped into the four ethical leadership scales of communicative ethics, climatic ethics, ethics in decision making and behavioural ethics. The instrument was validated by three experts. For the reliability of the instrument, a co-efficient value of 0.85 was obtained and was considered high enough for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions. The 2-test was adopted in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the items in the four sub-scales of ethical leadership are the school administrator's ethical leadership behaviours. Equally, the administrators' ethical leadership behaviours influence teachers' commitment very highly. It was thus recommended that the government agencies should consistently