The Role of Academic Success and Conscientiousness on Identification with School as an Organizational Form

Abstract

This study aims to identify the relationship between students’ organizational identification with their personality and academic success. Conscientiousness, one of the most important five personality traits, has been taken as a personality trait involving submissiveness, orderliness, discipline, responsibility, and achievement orientation. Furthermore, it is a result of learning and socialization while functioning as an evaluator. Considering schools, students’ academic success is an important factor since students who have a high level of academic success try to achieve their personal goals that contribute to schools’ overall goals. Organizational identification as the other variable of the study is defined as a cognitive linking between the definition of the organization and the definition of the self. Considering the students who have high level of academic success and have self-discipline, they would identify themselves with their school. Taking this as the hypothesis of the study, data have been gathered from 506 collage students. Research results showed that individuals’ time spent at school and their conscientiousness were effective while academic success was not effective on their organizational identification