Ethical leadership and job performance of teachers in secondary schools in Kyabugimbi Sub-County in Bushenyi District in Southwestern Uganda

Abstract

This study sought to establish the relationship between ethical leadership and job performance of teachers in secondary schools in Kyabugimbi Sub-County in Bushenyi District in southwestern Uganda. The study examined the relationship between ethical guidance, power sharing, integrity, fairness, role clarification, and people orientation. The correlational study covered a sample of 124 teachers. Data were collected using a questionnaire survey. Descriptive results revealed that the level of job performance of teachers was good as was head teachers provision of ethical guidance, power sharing, integrity, fairness, role clarification and people orientation. Regression analysis revealed that ethical guidance, power sharing, integrity, fairness, role clarification, and people orientation had a positive and significant influence on job performance of teachers. It was concluded that there was improvement in job performance of teachers in terms of classroom teaching, management of students, discipline and regularity and interpersonal relations. Further, ethical leadership in terms of ethical guidance, power sharing, integrity, fairness, role clarification, and people orientation are imperative for the performance of secondary schools teachers. It was recommended that in their management of secondary schools, head teachers should offer ethical guidance to teachers, ensure that there is power sharing, maintain high self-integrity, be fair in handling teachers, offer role clarification, and be oriented to their teachers.