The survey of correlation between cultural approaches & employes creativity

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The aims of the present research included, investigating the possible relationships between the four aspects of cultural attitudes based on the Hofsted model(masculinity, power distance, uncertainity avoidance and collectivism) and the staff's creativity in the ministry of welfare and social security. Therefore, a statistical sample of 150 people was chosen from the employees of the ministry randomly-categorically.The measurement tools of the research included the Hofsted questionnaire of cultural attitudes and Randsepp questionnaire of creativity.
the results of testing the assumptions and theories of the research showed that the spearman's correlation coefficient between the cultural attitudes and the staff's creativity was 0.552, and the existence of relationship between them in a level higher the one percent was approved. Also this is shown that employees with cultural matriarchy attitudes, believing in lower power distance and uncertainty avoidance have higher organizational creativity And there is no relationship between cultural collectivist attitude and employee's creativity. The results confirm theoretical basics of the study that the organizational culture has effects on the employee's creativity as a facilitating factor.

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 12, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
November 2014
Pages 569-588

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