The Effect of Managers' Ethical Leadership on Organizational Health Mediated by Organizational Justice In the Schools of Qorveh City

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of principals' ethical leadership on organizational health mediated by organizational justice in schools.  Methodology: The study method was descriptive and correlational studies. The study population was all 339 secondary school teachers in Qorveh city in 2020. From this population, based on Morgan table, a sample of 181 people was selected by simple random sampling method. Data were collected using the Ethics Leadership Questionnaire by Brown et al (2005), the Morman and Niehoff (1993) Organizational Justice Questionnaire, and the Hui and Fieldman (1996) Organizational Health Questionnaire. In the present study, Cronbach's alpha values were Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.89), Organizational Justice (0.92) and Organizational Health (0.90). GFI values were confirmatory factor analysis of Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.92), Organizational Justice (0.93) and Organizational Health (0.92). Structural equation modeling test using LISREL10.30 software was used to analyze the data.  Findings: Ethical leadership, principals had an effect (0.61) with a significant amount (7.61) on the organizational health of schools and an effect (0.62) with a significant amount (6.79) on organizational justice. Organizational justice had an effect (0.27) with a significant amount (3.63) on the organizational health of schools. Ethical leadership Principals due to organizational justice had an indirect effect (0.167) with a significant amount (3.22) on the organizational health of schools.  Conclusion: According to the research findings, the moral leadership of principals and organizational justice has a positive and significant relationship with the organizational health of schools.