A Survey Study of the Characteristics of Learning Organizations and their Relationship with Employees' Creativity in Public Organizations of West Azarbaijan

Abstract

The main purpose of the present paper is to measure the situation of learning organizations factors and study its relationship with the staff's creativity in the governmental organizations of west AzerbaijanProvince. Watkins and Marsic's Theory (1996) has been used as the theoretical frame to study the learning organizations, and Stein's Theory has been the theoretical basis to study creativity. The research hypotheses include one primary hypothesis and seven secondary hypotheses. The research is of descriptive-correlational type. The statistical population includes all the employees of the governmental organizations of west AzerbaijanProvince, totaling 51058 according to the statistics taken from the Administration and Planning Organization of the province. From among the total population, 380 people were selected as the research sample by using stratified-random sampling. The measuring tools are two researcher-devised questionnaires, the validity and reliability of which have already been confirmed. In order to analyze the descriptive data, SPSS software was used and to analyze the gathered data, inferential statistics (Pearson's correlation) was used to test the research hypotheses. According to the findings, all the research hypotheses were confirmed.

Keywords

• organizational learning
• learning organization
• learning organizations' characteristics
• creativity