Ethical Leadership a Key Ingredient to Secondary School Management in Kenya

Abstract

Ethical leadership is critical in ensuring that school managers are able to steer the organizations to competitive advantage. This is in the context that ethical leadership ensures that school managers practice value based leadership which has an implication on effective school management. However, school managers of the 21^stcentury continue to face numerous challenges in sustaining school management despite them having reflective leadership skills in technical, conceptual and human relations. School leaders need to employ ethical leadership practices in order to achieve the school goals which are reflected in staff job satisfaction which leads to better performance for both staff and students. The purpose of this study is to determine how ethical leadership is a key ingredient in the secondary school management in Kenya. Ethical leadership being a value-based leadership style may serve as an alternative to many other modern leadership practices. The study will look at the principles of ethical leadership in practice and how they school managers steer their organization to productivity within a context of a society full of ethical impractices which have an implication on value based leadership.