The Development of Ethical Leadership Indicators for Upright School Administators
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The purposes of this research were to develop and validate the indicators of ethical leadership for Upright School administators. This research and development consisted of 3 phases. Firstly, factors and indicators of ethical leadership for Upright School principals were established by research documentations, focus group discussion among the professional of the university, secondary school and primary school administators and ethical key persons to validate the factors and indicators, trying out factors and indicators by the experts among lecturers about ethical leadership in universities, principals, teachers in secondary schools and primary schools, and supervisors who worked with the Upright School projects. Secondly, construct validity of factors and indicators of ethical leadership was verified by the confirmatory factor analysis model. Finally, the criteria and a manual for measuring and evaluating ethical leadership were developed. The research findings showed that there were seven factors of the indicators of ethical leadership for Upright School principals: the critical thinking processes with 3 indicators, the ethical decision with 2 indicators, the discipline and the fairness with 3 indicators, the honesty with 3 indicators, the sufficiency with 3 indicators, the public mind with 3 indicators, and the team creation with 5 indicators. In addition, the validation of the model indicated that the model corresponded to the empirical data with 122.32 = 0.97, P = 0.576, df=126, GFI= 0.979, AGFI=0.958, RMR = 0.00269 and RMSEA = 0.000., with the highest mean on the discipline and the fairness, the honesty, the ethical decision, the team creation, the critical thinking processes, the sufficiency, and the public mind, respectively. As for the criteria for measuring the ethical leadership for Upright School principals, there were 3 levels: the low elevel (norm statistics score lower than 93.1) the fair level (from 93.1 to 108.9), and the high level (over 108.9). The result of the evaluating handbook on the ethical leadership for Upright School principals was at a highest level.
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