Individual and Organizational Factors Effective on Individual Creativity

Successful enterprises need knowledge and cognition of the effective sub-criteria of creativity and analysis of the relations between individual, organizational and individual creativity factors. The aim of this research is to investigate interactions among individual and organizational factors which affect individual creativity, and their influences on individual creativity within a knowledge-based research firm. For this purpose, data were collected from answers to a questionnaire by some 324 people of the enterprise’s employees. Research method of this article was descriptive-correlative. Focus correlation analysis was applied for evaluating interactions between the criteria. The results indicate that the “individual factors” are strongly correlated with “organizational factors”, while the organic structure has the most influences on individual creativity.