International Journal of Organizational Leadership

Abstract

The present research was conducted with the aim of exposition of the relationship between managers’ ethical leadership style with teachers’ organizational commitment and burnout. The study was an applied and descriptive research. Statistical population included all teachers of guidance school in district four of Tehran which amounted 744 teachers of which 260 teachers (males=177 and females=83) were selected based on Morgan’s table. Sampling method was stratified random sampling based on their gender. For collecting data, three questionnaires, namely job burnout (Maslach & Jackson,1981), organizational commitment (Allen & Mayer, 1990), and ethical leadership which was developed by the researchers came into use. Reliability of  the three questionnaires were acceptable and for analyzing the obtained data, the statistical methods of Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and  regression were used. The results showed that the managers’ ethical leadership style had a positive relationship with the teachers’ organizational commitment and a negative relationship with their burnout. Following this, the results of regression analysis indicated that 64.1 percent of the changes in teachers’ organizational commitment and 48.3 percent of the changes in their burnout could be explained by the managers’ ethical leadership style.