Cultural Intelligence of International School Principals ‎and its Relation to the Organizational Citizenship Behavior ‎of Teachers

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying the level of cultural intelligence among the principals of international schools in Amman Governorate and its relation to teachers’ “organizational citizenship behavior”, from the perspective of the teachers of these schools. The study used the descriptive method. A questionnair consisting of (33) items covering the ‘cultural intelligence’ and another questionnaire for the ‘organizational citizenship behavior’comprising 19 items were administered to a cluster sample of 494 teachers in 30 schools. The study found that both of the level of cultural intelligence among international school principals (3.96) and the level of teachers' practice of organizational citizenship behavior (3.41) were high. The results also showed a statistically significant positive relation between the level of cultural intelligence among international school principals and teachers’ citizenship behavior in these schools. Cognitive and motivational cultural intelligence contributed statistically to predicting the behavior of organizational citizenship.