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Ethical leadership is the leadership approach that principals use to regulate the communication, climate, behavior, and decision-making processes in the school. It is seen that these studies are carried out in both public and private schools. However, it is difficult to say that these studies reflect the sector and level-based view of ethical leadership holistically. Therefore, in the present study, ethical leadership behaviors of principals in public and private schools were examined at the secondary and high school levels. The study was carried out with a cross-sectional survey, one of the quantitative research designs. Research data were obtained from teachers working in public and private schools in Samsun. In this context, 400 participants' opinions were taken by stratified sampling. Software named SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 8.3 were used for the analysis. Findings illustrate that teachers perceive their principals as brave leaders in both sectors. However, it is understood from the findings that school principals have relatively low scores in respecting social values. Comparisons show that teachers working in public schools perceive their principals as more ethical leaders. In comparisons at the school level, the significant difference in finding the school principal more ethical favors public high schools and public secondary schools. Various inferences were made based on the research results, and suggestions were made.

PurposeTeachers' expressing candid and natural emotions during teaching and learning processes is of vital importance for the quality and content of education. Because of that reason, it is necessary to explore factors that have a role in teachers' emotional labour. Therefore, the current study aims to test a novel model developed to explore the direct and indirect relations among distributed leadership, teacher autonomy and emotional labour.Design/methodology/approachThe study data came from 1,007 teachers working at 81 state high schools located in 12 different regions in Turkey. To test the proposed model, the authors conducted a mediation analysis of structural equation modelling.FindingsThe analysis confirms that teacher autonomy is a prominent mediator in the relationship between distributed leadership and emotional labour.Originality/valueThis study is expected to contribute to the body of research focusing on the effects of leadership on teachers' emotional labour.