Clarification of Mediator Role of Positive Organizational Behavior in Relationship between Managers’ Sense of Humor with Employee’ Creativity in Youth and Sport Offices of Kerman Province

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the managers sense of humor and creativity employee with the role of positive organizational behavior intermediation. This study was of descriptive-correlative type administered as a field study. The population of this study included all employees of Youth and Sports offices of Kerman Province (N=252), among of whom 164 persons were selected by cluster sampling. After determining validity and reliability,  data were collected using the  Sense of Humor, Positive Organizational Behavior and Creativity of Employee questionnaires. The data were analyzed by method of Partial Least Square and Sobel test. Findings indicated that managers’ sense of humor has a direct and significant impact on positive organizational behavior and creativity of  employee. Also, the positive organizational behavior has a direct and positive impact on  employee’ creativity. In addition, the results showed that sense of humor has no indirect and significant impact on creativity of employee through positive organizational  behavior. The findings suggested that Sport and Youth offices do not neglect the reinforcing programs of humor and positive psychological skills to increase the level of creativity of  the staff, and train and practice these skills to improve creativity.