THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CREATIVITY AND CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ORGANIZATION IN MAZANDARAN PROVINCE (IRAN)

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify the relationship between organizational creativity and citizenship behavior of principals. Research method is correlation that organizational creativity is the predictor variables and citizenship behavior is the criterion variable. Statistical population includes 171 mangers of high school in West of Mazandaran Province (Iran) that 98 people are selected by using stratified random sampling from Krejcie & Morgan table. Organizational creativity questionnaire (Randsepp, Zarei, 2005) is with the five components and the distance scale and citizenship behavior questionnaire is with the distance scale of Likert. After to evaluate and confirmed the validity of the tools and reliability these tools is obtained 90% and 89% respectively. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics of Pearson Correlation and stepwise regression are used to analyze data. Research results have shown that due to overall objective of the research, there is positive significant relationship between organizational creativity and citizenship behavior of principals. Because result obtained in a significant level p = 0.023 is less than value of 0.05 and each component of organizational creativity such as failure tolerance, acceptance of ambiguity, encouraging new theories, conflict tolerance and low external control considering the obtained value are less than the alpha of 0.05 and have a positive and significant relationship and each of the components in organizational creativity can predict citizenship behavior of principals.