The relationship between principals ethical behavior and teachers and personnel''s organizational citizenship behavior in Garmsar schools

The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between principals ethical behavior and teachers and personnel’s’ organizational citizenship behavior. The study used the descriptive (correlation) method of data collection. The participants in this study were 587 staffs (teacher =500, officer=87) at school in Garmsar city. Two instruments were used to collect data. Principals’ ethicism was measured by one self-designed questionnaire based on four dimensions; utilitarianism ethics, rule ethics, social ethics, personalistic ethics (Latbetter, 2005). The teacher and personnel’s organizational citizenship behavior measured by another self-designed questionnaire based on Morgan (1991). The data were analyzed by using the Pearson product – moment correlation technique and multiple regressions. The major findings were as follows: 1) A significantly positive relationship was found between total principals’ ethicism and teachers and personnel’s’ organizational citizenship behavior 2) A significantly positive relationship was found between four dimensions of administrators’ ethicism (Utilitarianism, Rule, Social, Personalistic) and teachers and personnel’s’ organizational citizenship behavior 3) The multiple regression analysis indicated that administrators’ social ethic behavior and utilitarianism ethics behavior are significant predictors of organizational citizenship behavior.