ABSTRACT
Notwithstanding the ample research on both ethics and leadership styles in the field of education administration, our knowledge of the connections between the two is quite meager. The present study fills this void by investigating how transformational and transactional leadership approaches are linked to a number of ethical paradigms that are believed to help principals solve moral dilemmas. While the research subjects—aspiring school principals enrolled in germane MA programs—reported on their managerial behaviors, we gauged their moral reasoning via the Ethical Perspectives Instrument (EPI). As our findings indicate, transformational leadership presages the utilization of the critique and profession ethics, whereas the transactional style is a harbinger of utilitarianism.
