ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPETENCE OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS: A SPRINGBOARD FOR VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
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Ethical Leadership, Administrative Competence, Educational LeadershipAbstract
Ethics builds administrative competence, empowers leaders to make relevant and effective decisions and reflective judgement. The study identified the influence of ethical leadership to the administrative competence of the school administrators of the secondary schools of Dapitan City Division and utilized the quantitative descriptive-correlation survey. The questionnaire gathered information from the school administrators and 180 secondary teachers and was divided in three (3) parts: Part I generated information on the respondent’s profile in terms of their age, gender, position title, educational attainment, length of service, and place of origin; Part II is focused on determining the level of ethical leadership of the school administrators in terms of ethics of care, ethics of justice, and ethics of critique based on the study of Langlois et al. (2014) in accordance to the perception of the school administrators themselves and the secondary teachers; and Part III identified the level of administrative competence of the school administrators as to the five domains indicated in the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads which are leading strategically, managing school operations and resources, focusing on teaching and learning, developing self and others, and building connections as rated by the school administrators and teachers. The results revealed that there is a high level of ethical leadership and administrative competence among school administrators of Dapitan City Division. There was a consistent observance of ethical leadership among the school administrators in the three dimensions and were identified as very much competent in the five domains of administrative competence. Moreover, the data disclosed that there was no significant difference as to the rating of the teachers and the school administrators in terms of the level of ethical leadership and administrative competence of the school administrators. It indicated that the status of ethical leadership and administrative competence was associated according to the ratings of the two groups of respondents. As such, the findings further revealed that there was a significant relationship between ethical leadership and administrative competence which signified that the level of ethical leadership influenced the level of administrative competence of the school administrators. On the overall, the study recommends the implementation of values-based sustainability program to maintain and solidify the status of ethical leadership and administrative competence among the school administrators.
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