The Role of Dimensions of Organizational Citizen Behavior in Social Capital

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of dimensions of organizational citizen behavior in teachers’ social capital. The study population was all 548 primary school teachers in Qorveh city (Iran), from which a sample of 225 people was selected by simple random sampling method based on Morgan table. The research method is correlation and especially structural equation modeling. To collect the data, researcher-made questionnaires of organizational citizen behavior based on the Organ model (1988) and Nahapiet and Ghoshal social capital questionnaire were used. To determine the reliability and validity of the instrument, Cronbach’s alpha techniques and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The results indicated the optimal reliability and validity of the instrument. Confirmation path analysis was used to analyze the data using LISREL software. The results showed that the dimensions of teachers’ citizenship behavior have a positive and significant effect on their social capital at the level of 0.05. The five dimensions of teachers ’citizenship behavior are able to explain 25% of the variance of their social capital, which is significance. In general, the findings support the role of constructs such as organizational citizenship behavior in teachers’ personality strengths and character.