The Relationship between Organizational Development and Creativity among High School Teachers in the Education District Two of Tehran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational development and creativity. Statistical population consisted of all high school teachers in the education district two of Tehran in the academic year 2013-14 which composed of 643 persons (179 males and 464 females). The research sample consisted of 240 subjects which were selected for the study using stratified random sampling and based on Cochran formula. The study was conducted in correlational descriptive method, and organizational development questionnaire (French and Bell) and creativity questionnaire (Randsepp) were used to collect data, also the Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression coefficient were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between the organizational development and creativity, also there is a significant correlation between all aspects of organizational development and creativity and among its dimensions, and supervision is the stronger predictor for creativity than other variables.
Keywords: organizational development, creativity, education, teachers.