Investigation of the relation between internalizing job values and organizational creativity of high school teachers

This study was conducted in order to determine the relation between internalizing job values and organizational creativity among the high school teachers of Isfahan. Using Sample Volume formula and Stratified Random Sampling method, some 340 participants were selected from the population which is over 3115. Information-gathering tools were Super's (1970) standard questionnaires of internalizing job values, consisting of 18, and verified questionnaire of organizational creativity, comprising 21 items, based on a 5-scale Likert, and their validity and reliability is confirmed by the experts. Furthermore, Cronbach's alpha has been calculated 0.84 for the internalizing job values questionnaire and 0.94 for organizational creativity, which shows the high credibility of the measuring tools. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics – including frequency, percentage, and mean – and inferential statistics – including Pearson correlation coefficient – were exploited. Analyzing the date revealed that there is a significant relation between internalizing job values, consisting of social status, and job creativity (r = 0.38), financial feedback and job creativity (r = 0.18), job independency and organizational creativity (r = 0.26), job security and organizational creativity (r = 0.25), innovation-encouraging atmosphere and organizational creativity (r = 0.51), and promotion and organizational creativity (r =0.50) in the significance level of (p < 0.01).