International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences © 2015 Available online at www.irjabs.com ISSN 2251-838X / Vol, 9 (9): 1499-1503 Science Explorer Publications Studying the relationship between self-efficacy and organizational citizenship behavior(case study : Islamic Azad University – Zone 1) Nima Shahidi 1 , Seyed Ali Shamsnia 2 , Sara Baezat 3 1.Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Nourabad Mamasani Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nourabad Mamasani, Iran 2. Kavar Educational Center of Applied Science and Technology,Kavar, Iran 3. M.A in Preschool Education, Shiraz, Iran Corresponding author email: shahidi_nima@yahoo.com ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between, organizational citizenship behavior and self-efficacy of faculty members in zone 1 of Islamic Azad University. The population of this research was 2181 faculty members and random stratified cluster sampling used to choose 436 faculty members as sample according to Krejcy & Morgan table. shwarzer et al (1991) self- efficacy questionnaire (chronbach alpha=0.82) and podsakoff et al (2000) organizational citizenship behavior (chronbach alpha=0.84) questionnaire, with appropriate validity based on the specialists points of view were used to conduct this research. Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression tests were used to analyze the relationship between faculty members’ self -efficacy and their organizational citizenship behavior. Results showed that all dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior had significant relationship with faculty members self-efficacy. Among the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior, Altruism and Courtesy had a significant power for predicting faculty members self- efficacy Keywords: Self-efficacy, Organizational citizenship behavior , Faculty members, Islamic Azad University INTRODUCTION Nowadays educational systems and universities have an important role in societies. As one of the reasons of the success of modern organizations is hiring employees whose behaviors are not limited to the official roles . faculty members of universities should pay attention to their roles in this new societies which faces many new challenges. Faculty members have been asked to adopt behaviors beyond their traditional roles. This extra behaviors are prosocial ,and organ(1988) defined them as organizational citizenship behavior. He identified five types of organizational citizenship behavior: altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, civic virtue, and conscientiousness. The presence of OCB in universities and among faculty members has a significant correlation with job satisfaction and organizational development (Jamali, Poorzahir & Salehi, 2009) and the presence of these behaviors in organizational enhancement is so important and desired that they result in achieving results such as effective communication (Mahdad&Mehdizadegan, 2010). The importance of organizational citizenship behavior to organizational success has led to many attempts to identify its antecedents. Podsakoff, et al. (2000) show that transformational leadership is related to each dimension of organizational citizenship behavior. In education, few studies have focused on teachers' organizational citizenship behavior. Koh, Steers, and Terborg (1995) stated that principals' transformational leadership and organizational commitment of teachers are related to high school teachers' altruism, one type of organizational citizenship behavior. Somech and Drach-Zahavy (2000) suggested that