Effectiveness of training based on creative problem solving (CPS) on creative thinking among the Employees of Kosar Credit Institute

Theme: Understanding the importance of organizational creativity, organizations, today, have increasingly focused on it, and this has led to a great number of articles found in journals on organizational creativity.
Aim: This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating the Effectiveness of training based on creative problem solving (CPS) on creative thinking Of Kosar Credit Institute employees.
This work was carried out using a pre-test and post-test model with a control group. Population consisted of all Kosar Credit Institute employees, 27 of which were selected by availability sampling method, and were put in a test group and a control group by random substitution. The instrument required to conduct this research was a researcher-made open-ended test of learning organizational resilience, whose face validity and content validity were obtained using subject experts, and creativity and psychology professors, and it was used as the pre-test and post-test. In order to conduct the research, a 5-session lesson plan was used to teach by CPS. The learners’ responses were analyzed using Torrance (1969) criteria of creative thinking via quantitative content analysis method. The results obtained through analysis of covariance were analyzed using SPSS statistics software program.
Findings: Results indicated that CPS-based training generally influenced creative thinking components (p considering the research findings, using the techniques of CPS method in classroom can help increase the learners’ creative problem solving capability.