The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Achieving Administrative Creativity Among Primary School Leaders in The City of Dammam - Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This study aims to show the degree of ethical leadership practice and its relationship to administrative creativity among principals of primary education schools from the teachers’ point of view in the city of Dammam. To achieve this, the descriptive-analytical method was used, a scale consisting of (71) items to measure ethical leadership (56 items) and administrative creativity (15) items, and after verifying the validity and reliability of the questionnaire; It was applied to the research sample of 346 teachers with a percentage of 10% of the research population of male and female teachers, the most prominent results are that the degree of ethical leadership practice and administrative creativity among school leaders was high and that there is a strong direct statistically significant correlation between the degree of ethical leadership practice and the level of administrative creativity, as well. It was found that there is a positive impact of ethical leadership on administrative creativity. In light of these results, the researchers presented a set of recommendations, including for educational policymakers to understand the importance of the role of ethical practice in educational institutions, and to formulate policies that would encourage and support ethical behaviors within schools, the need for the Ministry of Education by providing sustainable and targeted training programs in ethical leadership, before and during service, for school leaders while encouraging and supporting their practices of ethical leadership and administrative creativity in their schools.