Abstract:

This study examined the relationship between school managers’ ethical leadership behaviors and teachers’ organizational level of confidence. The sample of the research designed in the relational scan model is made by 397 teachers who are working in the districts of Pendik and Tuzla related to Istanbul. The study used the "Ethical Leadership Scale" and the "Organization Trust Scale". The research data was analyzed by arithmetic average, standard deviation, correlation analysis and regression analysis. The findings from the study have found that teachers have a high level of organizational confidence and the perception of the school managers of ethical leadership behavior. The correlation analysis found that there was a positive and statistically meaningful relationship between teachers’ perceptions of school managers’ ethical leadership behavior and organizational confidence levels. A simple regression analysis found that ethical leadership is a meaningful contributor to organizational trust. From the findings obtained from the research, research on how different leadership behaviors of school managers affect the organizational level of trust of teachers can ensure a better understanding of the relationship between leadership and trust; training can be organized to both school managers and teachers in order to ensure that teachers are integrating the professional ethical principles and in this context; from examples of events, teachers and school managers can be increased awareness of the different situations and the possible consequences of these situations; teachers can be taken into a more professional process in order to ensure that their organizational level of trust is increased; teachers can be taken into a more professional process in order to ensure that their activities are conducted in a more professional process; teachers can be taken into a more professional process in order to ensure that their activities are conducted in a more professional process.

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