Study of relationship between organizational climate, job stress and creativity in administrative personnel (male and female) of the office of education in West Azarbayjan

Aim and

Education has devoted a great amount of the budget of every country to itself. In order to provide a calm and stressless environment in educational section that gurantis the effectiveness of personnel it is necessary that an appropriate climate should be in place. This will finally lead to the creativity of the personnel.The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and the job stress & creativity of the administrative personnel of the educational office of west Azerbaijan province in 1387-88 academic year.Method and Materials: this is a descriptive – analytical research administered has been correlatively. The statistical population includes all the administrative personnel of educational office in West Azerbaijan province which is about 1569 persons (1469 males, 80 females). The sample group includes 479 (409 males, 69 females) which has been chosen through multistage cluster sampling and in different stages. The means of the research are: organizational climate description questionnaire of Halpin & Croft; (OCDQ), Rice's Job Stress, Abedi's Pencil – Paper Test of Creativity. The analysis of data for both descriptive and analytical level of the two sample independent t-test, multivariate regression analysis to test hypotheses and statistical programs were used SPSS.V16.0.

The results of multivariate regression showed that the effect of organizational climate in general on job stress and employee’s creativity was significant (P < 0.01) and (P < 0.01) and (P < 0.05) for men and women respectively. The difference between organizational climate and gender was significant (P < 0.01). But there was no statistically significant difference between creativity and stress, and gender.

In the open environment some parameters such as intimacy, consideration influence, dynamism & morale can be the causes of creativity & decrease in their stress. In closed environments elements such as separation, lack of interest & commitment to their jobs, emphasis on productivity, interference & motivation lessens creativity in the personnel & increases their stress.