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Ethical leadership is about having the personal characteristics, behaviours, decision making attitudes that are centred on morality and moral management of others, in an organization. This study was focused on revising and validating the Ethical Leadership Scale (Brown et al., 2005) to improve the theoretical representation of ethical leadership. The revision of the scale was carried out in the context of educational institutions. The two factors of the moral person α= 0.88 and moral manager α= 0.88 demonstrated adequate reliability and validity. Psychometric properties were established using Principal Component Analysis, which demonstrated that the Revised Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS-R) is a reliable and valid measure to study ethical leadership.