Surveying Management Perspective of Organizational Creativity Obstacles and its RelationshipWith Demographic Variables

Change and dynamic are among important characteristic of the world we live in. signs of such a dynamic can be found in areas like emergence of new competitors, introduction of new products and services, introduction of new technologies in manufacturing process,etc. from researcher's view point, organizations can easily handle such a dynamic by using creativity and innovation their human resources bring to the company. However, there are some major obstacles on this way which recognizing and eliminating them are of great importance. The, purpose of this study is therefore, identifying and categorizing main organizational creativity obstacles as well as examining relationship of these obstacles with some demographic variables from management viewpoint of non-industrial operationunits of Iranian gas refinery. The results showed that main organizational creativity obstacles are: Avoiding from risk, timepressure and organizational strict rules. On the other hand, results of surveying relationship of obstacles with demographic variablesshowed that male managers of this organization have more dissatisfaction with organizational creativity obstacles than their female counterparts. In relation with level of education, results showed that there is a meaningful difference between educated andnon- educated managers.