Leading on the Ground : An Exploration of the Narratives of Ethical Leadership Practices-in-Use of Early Career Assistant Principals

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dc.contributor.author Minami, Carmielita Acoba
dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-02T22:42:30Z
dc.date.available 2016-05-02T22:42:30Z
dc.date.issued 2013-12
dc.description Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2013.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstract School leaders live in a world of increased accountability, higher student and leadership standards, and increased expectations of student achievement. The leader is key in establishing the ethics and norms that govern the people in the school through their actions and words. Yet, moral and ethical leadership in schools have been given very little attention in scholarship and research. This qualitative study generated a grounded theory of ethical leadership in action used by early career school leaders. Sixteen narratives of everyday situations written by eight assistant principals in public schools were analyzed from three perspectives: 1) leadership practices, 2) principles used to resolve the challenges and situations, and 3) dilemmas embedded in the situations. Results showed that the assistant principals applied five moral concepts in resolving the situations and a single-loop theory-of-action. This study broadened the awareness and understanding of the assistant principals' a) application of the ethics standard in practice; b) their ethical decision-making as a critical leadership task of assistant principals; c) their complex role as leaders in the school; and d) their craft knowledge of school leadership through their own eyes and voices of early career leaders.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100729
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher [Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [December 2013]
dc.relation Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Education.
dc.subject Ethical leadership
dc.subject moral reasoning
dc.subject school leadership
dc.subject assistant principal
dc.title Leading on the Ground : An Exploration of the Narratives of Ethical Leadership Practices-in-Use of Early Career Assistant Principals
dc.type Thesis
dc.type.dcmi Text
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