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Title:	Influence of principals ethical leadership on trust in leader and teacher work engagement in secondary schools of southern zone, Malaysia
Authors:	Sharmini Siva Vikaraman (P87499 )
Supervisor:	Azlin Norhaini Mansor, Dr.
Keywords:	Educational leadership -- Malaysia Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Malaysia School principals -- Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	23-Aug-2019
Description:	Leadership based on ethics is crucially significant to the 4IR era because it is believed to enhance the level of teacher confidence in their work engagement patterns. But the concept of ethics in leadership is still unpopular among principals in Malaysia compared to other countries. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify the extent of ethical leadership being practiced by school principals that influences the development of trust in leaders (principal) and teachers work engagement. This study employs a mixed method research design using the QUAN-qual sequential explanatory approach involving 616 secondary school teachers. The quantitative data was collected using a questionnaire which was adapted from three survey instruments namely - Ethical Leadership at Work, Trust in Leader and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale with an excellent reliable Cronbach Alpha value of 0.966. The qualitative data was collected via a semi structured interview. Results of this study show that the principals ethical leadership practice, teachers trust in their leader and teachers work engagement in these schools are moderately high. The correlation analysis found all the variables in this study to be strongly related to each other with ethical leadership and trust in leader r = 0.928, ethical leadership and work engagement r = 0.645; and trust in leader and work engagement r = 0.660. Regression analysis indicated that ethical leadership was a significant predictor of trust in leader and work engagement. The mediation effect test revealed that trust in leader partially mediated the relationship between ethical leadership and teacher work engagement. The presence of trust in leader as a mediator is less significant. As an alternative to what leadership style is currently being practiced in schools, ethical leadership seems to stand a good chance with an encouraging weightage of 87% strength of relationship in influencing trust in leader and 43.2% strength in work engagement respectively. The interview findings shared that principals practiced being ethical but lacked the understanding on how ethical leadership practice can function in influencing building trust and getting teachers to be engaged in their work. This study also proposes a model that represents the relationship between ethical leadership, trust in leaders and teacher work engagement to be considered in professional training of school leaders, such as NPQEL. The study suggests an ethical leadership model along with the tested and identified dimensions to guide principals in secondary schools to influence teachers to trust their principals and eventually be engaged in their schoolwork.,Ph.D.
Pages:	387
Call Number:	LB2806.S536 2019 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Education / Fakulti Pendidikan

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