Drivers and Barriers of creativity in the organization: Meta-analysis of Iranian studies

The aim of this study is investigation the individual factors affecting creativity in Iranian organizations by meta-analysis.

The present study is a meta-analysis. CAM2 software has been used for this purpose. In the initial search with the inclusion criteria of the research year and the language, 1687 related documents were found from the studied databases. After that, 77 researches were selected and entered into the meta-analysis process.

The findings show that at the 95% confidence level, individual factors have a significant effect on organizational creativity and have been able to explain 0.467% of changes in organizational creativity. Also, the results of the heterogeneity test indicate that there is a heterogeneity between the studies, which is why the random effect size has been used. The funnel diagram also indicates that the standard error is low and the bias is relatively low, in fact, it indicates a normal and random distribution, and the observed error is due to possible oblique types.

According to the research findings, among the individual factors affecting creativity in Organization Independence with effect size (0.714), feeling of effectiveness with effect size (0.660), significant feeling with effect size (0.647) And constructive thinking strategies with effect size (0.749) had the highest effect size and a significant relationship with organizational creativity.