The Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Principal Self-Efficacy

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Principal Self-Efficacy (PSE). With a nationwide quest to improve teaching and learning in schools, every school needs an efficacious principal. Tschannen-Moran and Garies (2007) suggest a focus on the antecedents and outcomes of a robust sense of efficacy could prove beneficial. Organizational citizenship behavior represents a feature of schools that has potential consequences for principal self-efficacy. Results suggest tentative and modest support for the relationship between OCB and principal self-efficacy. The addition of OCB in each of the regression models resulted in a significant change in the explained variance, suggesting that faculty behaviors and performance can contribute to the mindsets and beliefs of principals.