Study of the Relationship between five dimensions of Personality and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the principals in Payame Noor Universities of Guilan

It has been more than two decades since the first time the term Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) was expressed by Organ and his colleague. Organizational Citizenship Behavior is a cooperation which enhances the performance and refers to the behavior that is useful for the organization but has not been planned by the organization. The purpose of the present research is to study of the relationship between different Personality dimensions of the principals in Payame Noor Universities of Guilan and their Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The research methodology is correlational and causal and is known as an applied research according to its purpose. In this study among the managers and principals of Payame Noor universities of Guilan, 121 people were asked to fill in big five Questionnaire Costa & McCrae and OCB Podsak off Questionnaire. Regression analysis was used for analyzing the data. The results showed that there is a significant relation between Personality and OCB. There is also a significant relationship between the dimensions of extraversion, consciousness & agreeableness with the OCB variable. And the dimension of openness had a negative relation with OCB. The relation of openness and neuroticism dimensions and OCB is not significant.