Explaining the mediating role of professional ethics in the effect of transformational leadership on self-leadership and self-efficacy of female teachers

This study was conducted to Explaining the mediating role of professional ethics in the effect of transformational leadership on self-leadership and self-efficacy of female teachers. The research method is descriptive-survey with the approach of structural equations. The statistical population of the study is all female teachers in Mashhad in elementary, first and second secondary schools with the number of 3720, of which based on Cochran's formula, a sample of 348 people was selected by cluster sampling. The tool of data gathering is the transformational leadership questionnaire of Bass & Avillo (2002), professional ethics of Kadozir (2002), researcher-made self-leadership and self-efficacy of teachers of Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk (2001) that their validity was confirmed with construct validity and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and hybrid reliability. Data were analyzed using SPSS23 and SMART PLS2 software.The results of the research hypotheses showed that the variable of learning organization is a mediating variable between the variables of transformational leadership with self-leadership and self-efficacy. Transformational leadership has a positive and direct effect on learning organization, self-leadership and self-efficacy as well as learning organization has a positive and direct effect on self-leadership, but transformational leadership has not been able to influence self-efficacy. The quality of measurement model was confirmed by cv.com test and the structural model by cv.red test. Finally, the results showed that by using the transformational leadership style and the mediating role of professional ethics, she improved the level of self-leadership and self-efficacy of teachers.