The Impact of Ethical Leadership on School Organizational Effectiveness through the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and Creative Teachers

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on the organizational effectiveness of schools with the mediating role of creativity and psychological empowerment of teachers. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The study population consisted of 2209 teachers in Shiraz District 1 in the academic year 1399-1400, which was selected using a simple random sampling method and based on Cochran's formula, a sample of 327 teachers from this community. To collect data from four ethical leadership questionnaires, Kalshoven, Den Hartog, and De Hoogh (2011); Spritzer Psychological Empowerment (1995); Torrance Staff Creativity (1963) and the Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire of Serjivani, Strata, and Robert (1992) schools were used. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling and Spss and lisrel software. Findings showed that: Ethical leadership, psychological empowerment and creativity have a direct, positive and significant effect at the level of 0.05 on organizational effectiveness; Ethical leadership also has an indirect, positive and significant effect on organizational effectiveness through the mediation of psychological empowerment and creativity. From the findings, it can be concluded that ethical leaders, along with the mediating role of psychological empowerment and creativity of teachers, have an effective role in the organizational effectiveness of schools. Therefore, if school principals and leaders have positive qualities of ethical leadership and in this process use strategies such as psychological empowerment and creativity of teachers, they can create favorable conditions for cooperation and participation of teachers in various school affairs and ultimately. Provide school effectiveness.