Review and clarify ethical leadership and its dimensions Case Study: employees of University of Tehran

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

Mohammad Reza Karami ¹ , – Seyed Mohammad Mirkamali ² , Javad PoorKarimi ³

1 - Graduated in Master, Department of Educational Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran [e-mail]
2 - Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-06-26 Accepted : 2016-08-10 Published : 2016-10-22

Keywords: Ethical leadership, people orientation, power sharing, concern for sustainability, ethical guidance, Employees University,

Abstract :

Context: recently with respect to moral scandals of leaders, discrimination, patronage and issues distortion has been placed in the headlines around the world everywhere; from commercial and government organizations to the church. We tried to investigate and clarify the ethical leadership and its aspects to recognize that kind of leadership. Aim:investigate and clarify the ethical leadership and its dimensions. Methods: The method of the research is descriptive and the type is Survey. The population consisted of all employees in University of Tehran, 1394-95. According to the latest statistics, there are 1419 (consisting of 801 women and 618 men) employees working in University of Tehran. That sample was selected by Stratified sampling and the size of sample was identified based on cochrane formula are 302. Data were collected through ethical leadership questionnaire (Researcher made).Todetermine thevalidity of the questionnaire, content validityandconstructwas used and Their reliability was estimated through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient on Pilot study "0/92". Results: The results showed that all the components of ethical leadership were above average in all aspects, except for peopel orentation, concern for sustainability, neuroticism, role clarification components that was lower to the average hypothesis of this research. Independent t test results showed that male and female employees' perceptions equal have of moral leadership. also The results of one-way variance test (f) showed the ethical leadership in terms of demographic variables (age, experience-serve, place of employment, education and field of study) there is no difference.theresults of Friedman test showed ethical guidance and role clarification has highest and lowest priority respectly. Conclusion: According to positive results of ethical leadership for organizations and communities, Administrators need to strengthen this type of leadershipin them.