Assessing the uncertainties between the big five personality factors and organizational citizenship behaviour among teachers of the Nungua and Osu Presbytarian Senior High Schools

Abstract

A number of studies have been conducted regarding the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviour and the Big-Five personality traits and have established some correlation between the variables. The present study sort to assess the uncertainties between organizational citizenship behaviour and the Big-Five personality traits, using the perspectives of Chiaburu et al. (2011) and Ilies et al. (2009) among teachers in Greater Accra. In this regard, two secondary schools – Nungua and Osu Presbyterian Senior High Schools were used for the study. The study posited that there is a positive and significant relationship between the variables. Specific hypotheses concerning the relationship between the variables were tested using quantitative approach and descriptive research design. Questionnaires were used for data collection from selected institutions with a sample size of 120 teachers. The study found that openness to experience was the only personality trait that positively and significantly predicts all three dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour. Again, openness to experience predicted the three dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour more than the four other Big Five personality traits. Also, conscientiousness was found to positively and significantly predict OCB-I and OCB-CH dimensions. The hypothesized significant relationship between agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism and the three dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour was not supported. In view of the findings of the present study, it is recommended that institutions should recruit teachers who possess openness to experience and conscientiousness traits in order to improve teachers’ engagement in organizational citizenship behaviour.