فصلنامه ابتکار و خلاقیت در علوم انسانی
سال سیزدهم شماره 49 (تابستان 1402)

The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of visionary leadership on emotional and cognitive creativity with the mediating role of positive psychological capital. This research is applied and of descriptive survey type. The statistical population of this research is the employees of government organizations in Lorestan province, which was used to determine the sample size of Cochran's formula, and the number of sample members was estimated to be 384 people, who were selected using available sampling method. The tool for collecting information in this research is a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by using the content validity method and their reliability was confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha. In this research, structural equation approach and Smart Pls2 and Spss 19 software were used to examine and test the hypotheses and conceptual model. The results of examining the hypotheses showed that visionary leadership has a positive and significant relationship on emotional and cognitive creativity with the mediating role of positive psychological capital. In addition, the comparison of the results showed that among the dimensions of visionary leadership, the highest dimensions of perspective image and practicality have a positive and significant relationship on cognitive and emotional creativity. Also, the results of the research show that positive psychological capital has a positive and significant relationship on visionary leadership and cognitive and emotional creativity, and among the dimensions of positive psychological capital, resilience and optimism are the most important dimensions.

The purpose of the present study was to present an innovative university model for and among the Islamic Azad Universities of North Khorasan. The researchers applied the qualitative method to carry out the study and the ‘theme analysis’ to analyze the data. The target population was comprised of the experts in the field of management of whom 20 subjects were selected as the expert panel. By applying an interview protocol, the data was collected and by using the software ‘NVIVO’ the data was analyzed. The findings of the study indicated that, based on the expert panel’s views, an innovative university among the Islamic Azad Universities of North Khorasan enjoyed five selective indicators (codes), thirteen indicators (codes) of orientation, and fifty nine free codes. To measure the validity of the qualitative phase of the study, the researchers used the expert-triangulation method which was conducted by two experts in management. Thence, the identified selective indicators (codes) were ranked by applying the Friedman Test. The results of this section showed that the personality, organizational structure, and information technology dimension characteristics respectively enjoyed the utmost significance in structuring an innovative university. Therefore, according to the findings of the present study, to materialize an innovative university, one is required to closely prioritize the personality, organizational structure, and information technology characteristics.

Context:

 In today's era, it has become clear to everyone that the existence of creative and motivated human resources is one of the reasons for the economic leadership of organizations and their not falling behind in the field of competition. Meanwhile, various factors affect the creativity of employees, which include exploitative leadership and organizational cynicism.

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between exploitative leadership and employees' creativity with the mediating role of organizational cynicism in 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 (Schmid et al’s, 2019) exploative leadership Questionnaire, (Wang et al’s, 2013), creativity Questionnaire and the (Dean et al’s, 1998) organizational cynicism 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 exploative leadership has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity and a positive and significant relationship with organizational cynicism, organizational cynicism has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity, also exploative leadership has a significant negative relationship with employees' creativity through organizational cynicism.

Exploitative leaders who, with all their selfishness, are highly focused on achieving their personal goals and do not spare any effort in this direction, have caused dissatisfaction and a feeling of organizational cynicism in employees, which causes negative thoughts towards The organization and the feeling of frustration and discouragement among the employees will increase, as a result of which their creativity will decrease.

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of critical thinking on creative self-concept with the mediating role of openness to diversity and challenge at Payam Noor University in Isfahan province.

The research method was descriptive-survey and applied. The statistical population of the research was made up of all the employees of Payam Noor University of Isfahan province, and at the time of the research (year 1401), their number was 900. The sample size was 270 people using the Karjesi and Morgan table and was selected completely randomly. The tools used were Bravo et al.'s critical thinking tendency scale, Kaufman and Bauer's creative self-concept questionnaire, and Bowman's openness to challenge and diversity scale. Data analysis was done using SPSS and Smart PLS software.

The results obtained from this research showed that critical thinking has a positive and significant effect on both creative self-concept and openness to diversity and challenge. Also, the mediating role of openness to diversity and challenge among the influence of critical thinking on creative self-concept was proven. Therefore, the final results indicated a positive and significant effect of critical thinking on creative self-concept with the mediating role of openness to diversity and challenges in the employees of Payam Noor University, Isfahan province.

This research has done with the aim of identifying the effective components entrepreneurial management of schools. The current research is qualitative and practical in terms of purpose. By collecting and analyzing the content of qualitative data, organizing themes and basic themes have been identified. in this research, a total of 18 interviews were conducted with theoretical and experimental experts, including professors of entrepreneurship and educational management, as well as principals of entrepreneurial schools. These people were selected as a snowball and the interview continued until the theoretical saturation stage was reached. Data analysis was based on thematic analysis and the coding method between two tests was used to validate the data. Based on the results of this research, the effective components in the entrepreneurial management of schools have been classified into 6 organizational themes, including entrepreneurial planning, entrepreneurial resource provision, entrepreneurial organization, entrepreneurial motivation system, entrepreneurial leadership, and entrepreneurial evaluation system.

Organizational entrepreneurship is one of the ways for government organizations and institutions to respond to environmental requirements. Many organizations have turned to team-based systems to increase accountability and work to foster innovation and creativity. In today's organizations, most of the departments of the organization act like a team and cooperate with each other to achieve the goals of the organization. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that improve the level of team creativity and its impact on organizational entrepreneurship.

The present study is an applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational details in terms of data collection method. This research has been done in government offices of Sarayan city. Data collection tools were standard questionnaires. After confirming the validity and reliability of the instrument, the collected data were analyzed by SPSS and AMOS software using structural equation modeling.

The results showed that team interaction behaviors, rapid team trust, conflict and interdependence of tasks have a significant effect on the level of team creativity. Also, the level of performance of team creativity has a significant effect on organizational entrepreneurship.

According to the findings of this study, use of work teams causes creativity. On the other hand, creativity is the main element of organizational entrepreneurship. Organizations in which new ideas are supported and progress quickly and go along with environmental changes, better identify opportunities and take advantage of them. By removing them, they differentiate themselves from other organizations and become entrepreneurial organizations.

Selecting a business model is one of the most critical decisions for managers to achieve success in the competition scene. Todays with the development of information and communication technologies, the world is a technological evolution called the sharing economy, which in their consumption becomes service sellers. The purpose of this research is to provide a practical method for selecting a sharing business model using multi-attribute decision-making methods. This research is applied in terms of purpose and mixed in terms of research method. The results indicate a method for obtaining points in multi-attribute decision-making and specifically the ARAS method for selecting a sharing business model. In the end, this method has been used in a startup business. This method helps managers and business owners in selecting a sharing business model before implementation.

Stress in the general sense and academic stress as one of its important types can challenge the dynamism and creativity of education and the optimization of human potential, so knowing the factors affecting the choice of coping styles seems essential.

To explain the effect of human agency and emotional intelligence on the style of coping with academic stress through the mediation of nostalgic tendencies in male students.

Descriptive-correlation research was of structural equation analysis type. The statistical population was the male students of the second secondary level of theoretical branches in Kashan city in the academic year of 2013-2014, 497 students were randomly selected. Students answered questionnaires of Cote's (1997) agentive personality, Schering's emotional intelligence, Andler and Parker's coping styles, and Havelena and Holak's (2004) nostalgic readiness. In order to analyze the data and test the hypotheses, correlation coefficient and structural equation method were used using SPSS.26 and lisrel 8.8 statistical software.

The parameters of the model were all significant (p < 0.01), the factor loading of the questions was higher than 0.4, which shows that all the components have a good similarity.

Human agency and emotional intelligence directly and positively influenced the problem-oriented coping style and directly and negatively affected the emotion-oriented and avoidant coping style with the mediation of nostalgic tendencies.Keywords: human agency, emotional intelligence, academic stress coping styles and nostalgic tendencies

the purpose of the current research is to help schools and educational institutions managers adopt appropriate strategies to renovate education and improve educational performance by identifying the socio-economic strengths and weaknesses (SW) of distant education of creativity.

applying a purposive sampling, the data of 15 individuals including management development assistants, teachers, academic assessment experts and members of parents' and trainer’s associations of the 3rd district of Tehran were collected and analyzed through semi-structured interviews. Applying a grounded theory, the model of socio-economic strengths and weaknesses of distant education of creativity was developed.

a total of 139 final codes were extracted from the interviews. These codes were classified into sixteen higher level categories, such as: the existence of cost, process, inter-unit problems, the need to reduce educational costs, etc. related to non-attendance creativity training. Based on the identified codes, the model of creativity in distance education was designed.

results of this qualitative research show that the correct application of distant education can increase students' creativity, improve the status and credibility of schools at the Education Association of Tehran, increase intra-school interactions, and increase the satisfaction of parents, students, and teaching staff.