An Assessment on the Colleges of Teacher Education Staffs' Perception on Ethical Leadership Behavior and Practice of their Leaders in Oromia Regional State
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2014-06-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which CTE leaders demonstrate ethical
leadership behaviour and practices. In an attempt to achieve the purpose of the study
descriptive survey design was employed. To this end, standardized questionnaires (i.e ELS and
LPI), were adapted to the Ethiopian college culture and utilized as instrument for data
collection. Since the target population of the study was colleges of teacher education, 127 staffs
and 17 leaders were participated in the study. Male Staffs were selected using simple random
sampling and female staffs and leaders were selected using purposive sampling techniques.
The data collected from the questionnaires was first edited, coded and feed into a computer for
further analysis. In the analysis of the data, the SPSS 20 for Windows package program was
used and out puts such as mean values and standard deviation were employed As a result, the
following major findings were obtained: CTE Leaders performed high in communication ethics
sub level and slightly good in climatic ethics than others. But leaders performed poorly in the
"ethics in decision-making " and behavioural Ethics sub-levels. Moreover, female staffs and
senior staffs didn't find the principals ' ethical leadership adequate compared to their male
counterparts and young staff respectively. Therefore,it was concluded that CTE leaders' have
demonstrated less than satisfactory ethical leadership behaviours. Hence, it was recommended
that Oromia education bureau needs to give due emphasis to bridge the observed behavioural
gaps of the CTE leaders by organizing training on communicative ethics.In addition,CTE
leaders' should be aware of the three dimensions of ethical leadership.In this regard, it is
suggested that Oromia REB should organize a college context tailored workshop in the area
of ethical leadership
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Ethical leadership, exemplary leadership