An investigation on the relationship between cultural attitudes and creativity of managers of special educational centers in the academic year 2009-2010 in Khorasan

摘要

The present research aimed to investigate the relation between managers' cultural attitude and their creativity in special educational centers of KhorasanRazavi, in academic year 2009-2010. In this study, cultural attitudes of managers are regarded and examined as independent and their creativity as dependent variables. The population of the study constitutes all the managers of Khorasan special centersamong which a sample of 85 people was selected randomly according to Morgan and Kerjsy Table. In this study, descriptive non-experimental and a correlation surveying approach is followed.The instruments used include: standard creativity questionnaire and managers' cultural attitudes. The reliability and validity of both is approved. Collected data was analyzed using SPSS software. We used Pearson's correlation coefficient in analytic statistics to make a comparison of means and to take t- test. The main hypothesis of the present study is: there is a significant relation between managers' cultural attitude and creativity. According to the correlation coefficient of cultural attitude and creativity of managers, 36%, and with 99% of certainty, the existence of a meaningful relation between managers' cultural attitude and creativity is confirmed. So we can conclude that managers' cultural attitudes affect their creativity power. The results obtained from the present research are consistent with findings of other researches by domestics and foreign authors.