Relationships between ethical leadership of pricipals and primary school teachers' mobbing experiences

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between perceptions of ethical leadership and mobbing experiences of Primary School Teachers. In this context, the aim of this study was to investgate the factors that affecting the perception of ethical leadership of Primary School Teachers and the behaviors that led to mobbing experiences for contibuting to the literature. Descriptive Review Method is being used in this research. Horizon of the research covers 698 primary school teachers who work in Çukurova in 2018 – 2019 academic year. In this horizon 333 teachers were reached. In this research , for scaling primary teachers' perceptions of ethical leadership, Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS) was used. In order to measure the frequency of mobbing behaviors, the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ) prepared by Cemaloğlu (2007) was used. While analyzing data, percentage, standard deviation, variance, arithmetic average and frequency value; in non-parametric tests, Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U; for correlation analysis, Spearman's Rank Order ( Spearman Rank Correlation) were used. The results of research are as follows: The level of primary school teachers seeing principals as a ethical leader is quite high. The level of negative behaviour (mobbing experiences) living in schools is very low.The ethical leadership perceptions of teachers did not differ significantly according to age, gender, marital status, education level and profesional seniority. Nevertheless, there is a significant difference between school working time and ethical leadership perceptions. The level of negative behaviour (mobbing experiences) did not differ significantly according to age, gender, marital status, education level and profesional seniority. Nevertheless, it was observed that there was a significant difference between educational level and frequency of negative behavior. At the end of the research; It was concluded that there was a mid-level negative relationship between ethical leadership and mobbing experience.