Explain the Role of Professional Ethics on the Performance of School Principals in Empowering Teachers with PLS Approach

Because social capital teachers are the educational system in any country. Therefore, their empowerment guarantees the prosperity of the next generation of the country. This study was conducted to explain the role of professional ethics on the performance of school principals in empowering teachers with PLS approach. The present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population includes all principals of health promoting schools in East Azerbaijan province in the academic year 2018-2019. The research sample was determined based on Morgan and Kerejsi table of 291 people and was selected based on random relative stratified sampling method based on education district and region and educational level. To measure research variables, the professional ethics questionnaire of principals (Bahagir, 2011) is a researcher-made questionnaire of school principals. The content validity of the questionnaires was estimated by the experts and their reliability was estimated by Cronbach's alpha method for the school principals' performance questionnaire of 0.966, respectively, and for the professional ethics questionnaire of 0.911 principals. The results of the structural equation model with pls3 software showed that the performance of principals in empowering teachers based on their professional ethics is predictable (P <0.01). Given the role of professional ethics in improving the performance of principals in empowering teachers, it can be said that promoting the professional ethics of principals has an effective role in empowering school teachers.