What Are the Practices of Unethical Leadership? Exploring How Teachers Experience the "Dark Side" of School Leaders

• In Event: Examining Principal-Teacher Relations

Abstract

This study uses Irresponsible Leadership (Oplatka, 2017) as an unethical leadership framework to explore how 40 teachers conceptualize and experience administrative leadership at their respective schools. Six themes emerged from the data: absent administration, indiscreet information sharing, disregard for the dignity of persons, abuses of power, displays of favoritism, and prioritizing personal gain.

Author

• Cecile Huynh Sam, Rowan University