A study of the role of school organizational characteristics on teachers trust and organizational-citizenship behavior

The aim of this research was to study teachers trust and organizational-itizenship behavior and their relationship with the school organizational characteristics. The population included all boys’ high school teachers of district II, Urmia among whom 159 teachers were randomly selected as the sample. The research method was descriptive-correlative. The questionnaires of organizational citizenship behavior, organizational trust, organizational culture, and organizational formalization were implemented to collect the data. Regression and correlation were utilized to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a relationship between school organizational characteristics and teachers trust and organizational-citizenship behavior. In other words, there is no relationship between organizational size with trust and organizational-citizenship behavior. Further, there is significant positive correlation between school organizational characteristics, organizational culture, and teacher trust and organizational-citizenship behavior. Organizational culture specifies 51 percent of the variance of teachers trust and 18 percent of the variance of organizational-citizenship behavior.