Ethical Leadership and Students’ Satisfaction in Public Universities of Ethiopia: Mediating Role of Perceived Good Governance

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of perceived good governance practices into the relationship between ethical leadership and students’ satisfaction in the context of Ethiopian public universities. The survey design took cross-sectional data from 384 valid responses from students of randomly chosen four public universities representing four generations. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was run to determine the model fit statistics, and Hayes PROCESS macro was used for mediation analysis. The study finds that ethical leadership behaviours positively affect students’ satisfaction. Moreover, perceived good governance practices at the higher educational institutions acts as a partial mediator into the relationship between ethical leadership and students’ satisfaction.

KEYWORDS:

• Ethical leadership
• good governance
• students’ satisfaction
• public universities
• Ethiopia

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Ethiopian Civil Service University [63/652].