Abstract:

In this study, it has been intended to elicit the relationship between the political tactics of school administrators and the perceived ethical climate. The sample of the study has been comprised of 388 teachers in 41 schools that were chosen among the teachers working in primary schools in Siirt province. In acquiring the data set of the research, "Political Tactics Scale" developed by Tanrıöğen and Kurban (2017) to evaluate the political tactics used by school administrators; “Organizational Ethical Climate Scale”, developed by Cullen, Victor and Bronson (1993) and transliterated to Turkish by Özen and Durkan (2016), have been utilized to measure perceived ethical climate. Descriptive analysis, correlation, simple regression and multiple regression analysis have been used to analyse the data set of the study. When the relationships in the correlation matrix have been examined, it has been deduced that the relationships between the political tactics of school administrators and its subdimensions - the perceived ethical climate are moderately negative and significant. When having considered regression analysis results, the political tactics applied by school principals, favoritism and depreciation of political tactics significantly predict the perceived ethical climate of the school. On the other hand; intimidation, branding and coalition formation sub-dimensions of political tactics do not statistically meaningly predict the the perceived ethical climate of the school.

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