Components of Professional Ethics for School Principals: Research Synthesis Based on the Roberts’s Model

 The principals of educational centers have an important role in advancing the goals of educational systems. Therefore, identifying the ethical components of school principals is an essential necessity in the educational system. The purpose of this study is to investigate the components of managers' professional ethics.

 The approach of the present study is qualitative and its method is synthesis, based on the model of Roberts et al. (2007). The research population consists of 247 articles which are published about the components of managers' professional ethics during the 2000-2020. The research sample consists of 37 articles that were purposefully collected and data were chosen based on thematic monitoring. Research data were collected from qualitative analysis of the studied documents.

Ethical Considerations: 

All the requirements of research ethics have been considered in the monitoring of synthesized articles.

 Based on the analysis of data, the components of managers' professional ethics were classified into 4 dimensions and factors. These dimensions include individual dimension (including factors; personality traits, perceptual skills and religious commitment), organizational dimension (including factors; interactions, organizational ethics, commitment, physical management, professional expertise, rules and regulations, Human resources management, research-oriented, principled decision-making and professional development), socio-cultural dimension (including factors; socio-cultural insight and socio-cultural responsibility) and political-economic dimension (including factors; political insight and economic management).

 The components of professional ethics of school principals are organized in four dimensions: individual, organizational, socio-cultural and political-economic. The Ministry of Education can provide the best possible implementation of these components by holding in-service courses and drafting a code of ethics for school principals.