The effect of primary school principals? ethical leadership behaviour on creative climate in primary schools

The purpose of the study was to define the effect of school administrators? ethical leadersip on creative school climate in primary schools. The study was modelled as a survey search. The population of the study consists of 4443 teachers working in state primary schools in the center of Antalya in 2007-2008 educational years. 1108 teacher questionnaires were evaluated in the study.A questionnaire form was used for gathering data in the study. The questionnaire consists of three parts. The first part of the questionnaire aimed to collect date on the personal information of the participants. The second part included items of ?Creative School Climate Questionnaire? which was developed by Sungur (1997, s.224-230). The last part included items of ?Ethical Leadership Questionnaire? was developed by Yılmaz (2006, s.87) for defining the degree of ethical leadership of primary school administrators. Within-items reliability test was done by using the Cronbach?s reliability correlation analysis. The Cronbach?s Alpha value of the creative school climate part was r= 0.987. The Cronbach?s Alpha value of the ethical leadership part was r=0.975.A five point Likert Scale ranging from ?never? to ?always? was used in the study. The significant level of 0.05 was set for all the analyses. Specific descriptive analyses which were conducted to calculate the data included percentage, frequency, means, standard deviation, t-test and one-way ANOVA for unrelated sampling, Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis.As the result of the study, ethical leadership skills of the administrators were found adequate according to the views of primary teachers. According to their views, primary school administrators performed ?ethical desicion making? behaviours at the most and they performed ?ethical climate? behaviours at least. In addition to this, behaviours of desing and develope a creative school climate are done adequately by primary school administrators according to the views of primary teachers. According to these views, administrators often performed ?Challenge and Motivation?, ?Trust and Support?, ?Freedom and Productivity? and ?Eliminating Barriers? behaviours and they sometimes performed ?Debates?, ?Risk Taking? behaviours. Finally, the results of multiple regression analysis gathered from teachers? views showed that the ethical leadership behaviours of school administrators were significant variables in defining the creative school climate.