TheRelationship Between Ethical and Moral Intelligence with Ethical Decision Making by primary school principals in Saveh

Subject Areas : Educational management

amir hossein mohammad davoudi ¹ , Mohadese motahary ²

1 - Department of Educational Administration, School of Humanities, Saveh Branch,Islamic Azad University, IAU, Saveh, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Administration, School of Humanities, Saveh Branch,Islamic Azad University, IAU, Saveh, Iran

Received: 2017-12-13 Accepted : 2018-01-12 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: "moral intelligence", "moral judgment", " moral decision-making",

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between ethical and moral intelligence with ethical decision making by primary school principals in Saveh. A sample of 90 people was selected from the statistical population of the managers with 113 people and the sample was randomly selected. The present research is descriptive-correlative research in terms of theoretical purpose and in terms of the method of implementation. Data were collected through the Lenick and Kiel (2005) ethical intelligence questionnaires with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.88, Kelberg and Mihelak et al. (1999) with coefficients Cronbach's alpha was 0.908 and Ethan's decision-making questionnaire Olgo et al. (2010) with Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.73. By collecting questionnaires on the sample group, the data were collected and analyzed using SPSS 22 software and statistical models of multivariate regression analysis and Pearson correlation. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between ethical intelligence and moral judgment variables with ethical decision making by managers