The Role of Individual Citizenship Behavior in School Organizational Innovation Mediated by Knowledge Sharing in Elementary School Teachers

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of individual citizenship behavior in the organizational innovation of schools with the mediation of knowledge sharing in primary school teachers. The descriptive-correlation research method was structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research included all the primary school teachers of the two districts of Kermanshah in the number of 1150 people, of which 291 people were selected using the stratified random sampling method based on the Karjesi and Morgan table. To collect research data, three standard questionnaires of personal citizenship behavior by Shuibski (2014), knowledge sharing by Vanden Hoff and Van Veenen (2004) and organizational innovation of schools by Amid et al. (2002) were used. The reliability and validity of the instrument were determined by Cronbach's alpha techniques and confirmatory factor analysis, and the reliability value was reported as 0/90 for citizenship behavior, 0/92 for knowledge sharing, and 0/94 for organizational innovation, respectively. To analyze the data, confirmatory path analysis was used using Lisrel software. The results showed that individual citizenship behavior and knowledge sharing of teachers have a significant effect on the organizational innovation of schools at the level of 0/05. Individual citizenship behavior through knowledge sharing has a significant effect on the organizational innovation of schools at the level of 0/05. Also, individual citizenship behavior and knowledge sharing can explain 47% of the variance of schools' organizational innovation.