فصلنامه ابتکار و خلاقیت در علوم انسانی
سال یازدهم شماره 43 (زمستان 1400)

The aim of this study was to identify, explain the dimensions, components and indicators of research performance of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran.

The research was conducted with a qualitative approach, using content analysis method. Purposeful sampling, and interviews with experts continued until theoretical saturation was achieved. To determine the logical framework of the data, the steps of identification, note-taking and classification of concepts were performed. Categories were reviewed and duplicates were deleted, similar items were merged, and subject dimensions were identified and leveled. Data analysis method was performed by thematic analysis technique of open, axial and selective coding. Then, in order to assess the validity of the model, an agreement was reached with ten faculty experts in the form of a focus group on the dimensions, components and indicators of the model.

The results showed that the extracted model has 9 dimensions, 25 components and 80 indicators to evaluate the research performance of faculty members. The results showed that the indicators of creativity, initiative and innovation are among the components and characteristics of personality and are in the individual dimension.

The proposed model can be desirable in evaluating the research performance of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University and eliminating possible problems and obstacles and promoting its creativity and initiative

 Organizations need creative and innovative employees to meet the challenges of their environment in order to survive and stay competitive. In the meantime, various factors affect the employees' creativity, including Machiavellian leadership and emotional exhaustion.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship between Machiavellian leadership and employees' creativity at Lorestan University.Research

The present descriptive-exploratory research is applied in terms of purpose and is based on the deductive research and positivism paradigm in term of philosophy. The statistical population of the study was 440 employees of Lorestan University. Based on Morgan's table, a sample of 205 people was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to measure the variables of the research, the (Dahling et al’s, 2009) Machiavellian leadership Questionnaire, (Wang et al’s, 2013), creativity Questionnaire and the (Maslach & Jackson’s , 1981) emotional exhaustion Questionnaire were used and Their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, structural equations modeling and PLS software have been used.

Findings show that Machiavellian leadership has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity and a positive and significant relationship with emotional exhaustion, emotional exhaustion has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity, also Machiavellian leadership has a significant negative relationship with employees' creativity through emotional exhaustion.

The overall results of the study show that Machiavelli leaders by increasing their personal interests over organizational interests and using tools as employees to achieve their goals increase employee stress and emotional fatigue, which in turn reduces employees' creativity.

Creativity as a valuable educational goal or goal is never achieved in a vacuum, but its achievement and manifestation in various fields requires the preparation of a set of basic contexts and conditions, and considering the problems and bottlenecks in our educational system in There is a background for the growth and emergence of creativity in educational centers. This study seeks to analyze the role and position of effective factors in the growth of creativity of high school students. This research is a descriptive survey in terms of practical purpose and method and nature of data collection. Data collection included Torrance Spatial Visual Processing Questionnaire (1979), Pham and Taylor Students' Academic Performance Questionnaire; 1999, Cornwald Active Memory Questionnaire (1995), Metacognitive Questionnaire by Wells in 1997, Phillips Social Support Questionnaire 1986, in which convergent validity and reliability were calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The statistical population of this study included all teachers, principals and members of secondary education. The sample size was based on Cochran's formula 136 and the stratified cluster random sampling method was proportional to the sample size. The method was data analysis and structural equation modeling. . In order to collect information, library and field methods such as questionnaires were used. In order to investigate the effect of academic performance and working memory mediated by metacognition, cognition and emotional dimension on the growth of creativity of high school students was used. The results showed that academic performance and working memory mediated by metacognition, cognition and emotional dimension have a positive and significant effect on the growth of creativity of high school students. The results also showed that the analysis of academic performance was directly 0.09 and mediated by metacognition, cognition and emotional dimension respectively 0.594, 0.194 and 0.260, working memory directly by 0.081 and mediated by Metacognition, cognition and emotional dimension explain 0.606, 0.254 and 0.209, respectively.

The aim of this study was to investigate the fit of the model of the relationship between religiosity and excellence after trauma with the mediating role of creativity and thinking style in veterans.

The present study is descriptive and correlational. The study sample was 362 veterans who were selected by simple random method from veterans (25 to 70%) of the Martyrs and Veterans Affairs Foundation of the cities of Tehran province in (1399). Data were collected using questionnaires of excellence after Tedچیi and Calhoun (2011), Allport and Ross religiosity (1950), Torrance creativity (1966) and Sternberg and Wagner (1979) thinking style. Data were analyzed using path analysis and SPSS25 and Amos24 software.

The results of path analysis showed that religiosity on thinking style, creativity and excellence after trauma; Thinking style on creativity; Creativity and thinking style have had direct and significant effects on post-traumatic excellence.
Religiosity also has a positive and significant indirect effect on post-traumatic excellence through the mediating role of creativity.

Religiosity along with creativity has a great effect on post-traumatic excellence in people with trauma. In other words, people with higher religiosity, religiosity affects their creativity And these people, in order to return to ideal conditions, with the help of their abilities and facilities, undertake mental and psychological reconstruction; Thus excellence is predictable after impact.

Till now, the elements influencing the communication technology sector's innovation ecosystem have not been explored in a systematic and independent way in the form of a quantitative model, independent of the information technology industry innovation ecosystem.

To identify and prioritize the factors affecting the Iranian communication technology sector's innovation ecosystem, as well as to examine the influence of each on the final model of the ecosystem for use by government institutions and industry activists in this industry.

In terms of purpose, the research employs a survey as a descriptive method. The experts in this study were carefully chosen from among the top executives and senior managers of private enterprises and governmental bodies in the Iranian communication technology industry. The fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) approach was used in three steps to discover the elements influencing the innovation ecosystem. In addition, data analysis, validation, and fit of the research model, as well as question analysis, were carried out using AMOS software's confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations, respectively.

This study's findings reveal that institutional factors, innovation management, business, national and regional, science and technology, and financial and economic variables all have a substantial influence on the communication technology industry's innovation ecosystem model. The final model offered is also well-fitting.

The analysis of coefficients of determination reveals that the innovation management component has the most influence, while the national and regional variables have the least impact on the CT industry's innovation ecosystem model. It is suggested that, due to the dynamics of industry and technology, the prioritization of factors affecting the ecosystem model be considered, as well as the establishment of an ICT Science and Technology Observatory with the goal of assisting the knowledge-based innovation ecosystem and predicting science and technology trends on the agenda of relevant institutions.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and job engagement with the mediating role of emotional creativity among elementary school teachers.

This research was descriptive-correlational in terms of method. The statistical population of the study included all elementary school teachers in 2019-2020, and the statistical sample (191 people) was selected through stratified random sampling method. The data collecting instruments were Bass’s (1985) transformational Leadership questionnaire (α=0/90), Schaufeli’s (2001) job engagement scale (α=0/78), and Averil’s (1996) emotional creativity questionnaire (α=0/70). The data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics, and structural equation modeling analysis and SPSS 22 were used to analyze the hypotheses.

Findings indicated the role of emotional creativity as a mediator between transformational leadership and job engagement. There was a positive and significant relationship between the components of transformational leadership (inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence & individual consideration) and job engagement. Also, there was a positive and significant relationship between the components of transformational leadership (inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence & individual consideration) and emotional creativity (P<0/01).

This study showed that there was a significant positive relationship between the components of transformational leadership and teachers' job engagement and emotional creativity. According to this finding, if managers see transformational leadership strategies as a requirement on their leadership style, they can make teachers enthusiastic about their work. On the other hand, by confirming the role of emotional creativity as a mediating variable, it is suggested that in order to increase the job engagement of elementary school teachers, managers can promote their emotional creativity.

The purpose of this study was to design English proverbs training program based on caricature and determine its effectiveness on creativity.

The research method was Exploratory mix(qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section included English language teaching specialists and psychologists located in the third district of Tehran in 2018, 10 of whom were selected as a sample by snowball method, and in the quantitative section included all English language learners in Amir English Language Teaching Institute located in the third district of Tehran in 2018 that 30 of them were selected by available sampling method and were randomly assigned to two groups of 15 people, Experiment and Control. Experiment group were trained in English proverbs using cartoons and slides for 10 session, while for control group it was done without cartoons and slides. The research instruments included researcher-made questionnaires to assess the validity of the educational package and Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (1972).

The validity of the training package was confirmed by calculating the CVR and CVI indices. Mixed two-factor analysis of variance also showed that the program of teaching English proverbs with caricatures had an effect on creativity and this effect was stable over time(p<0.05).

Caricature -based English proverbs training program has an effect on the creativity of English learners. Keywords: English proverbs training program, caricature and creativity.

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.

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of peace education on increasing optimism and hope in junior high school male students.

The present study method was performed. is using quasi-experimental method with pretest-posttest design by considering one experimental group and one control group with two-month follow-up. The statistical population of the study included male first-grade high school students in District 3 of Tehran. A total of 60 samples were randomly selected and according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, they were voluntarily assigned into two groups of experimental and control (30 in each group). The data collection tools included Luthans (2007) Psychological Capital Scale. The peace education intervention program was implemented in eight 120-minute successive sessions based on the developed protocol in person After school closure. To analyze the data, the analysis of variance with repeated measures (mixed design) was used.

Results revealed that implementation of peace education in comparison with the control group significantly affected the components of hope and optimism in students and the results of multivariate analysis showed that the effectiveness of peace education and the components of hope and optimism at the 0.01 level .

Thus, it can be concluded that providing peace education to students leads to sustainable increase in their hope and optimism.