School Innovation in Predictingprincipals’ Citizenship Behavior Based on Big-Five Personality

Abstract

This research was  aimed at finding out information about the relationship between big-five personality with school principals’ citizenship behavior (performance). A non-causal survey used by involving  54 elementary school principals in Jakarta. For measuring big-five personality and principals’ citizenship behavior (PCB), two instrument developed with each respectively of its reliability was 0.826 for personality and 0.94 for PCB. Its agreement among rater for PCB was 0.63. Regression and correlation analysis by applying partial correlation used for this research.The findings showed that there was a positive and significant correlation found between personality with PCB (0.59) and when all fourth-order correlation computed, emotional stability as one of big-five personality factors, proved it was high and significant variance contribution provided for PCB (0.455). It was followed respectively by other factors such as openness, agreeableness, extraversion and finally by conscientiousness. Therefore, emotional stability found to be the most vital factor in predicting school principals’ citizenship behavior, theoretically consisted of three sub-dimensions including helpful, courtesy, sportsmanship. These dimensions were supposed to be closely related to emotional stability factor, could be implied that when school principals to be evaluated its performance, through performance appraisal or evaluation, for the purpose of school innovation, those big-five personality factors could not be neglected.