study of relationship between organizational climate, occupational stress and creativity in administrative personnel (male and female) of the education office in west azarbayjan

aim and background: education has devoted a great amount of the budget of every country to itself. it is necessary to provide an appropriate organizational climate and calm and stress less environment in educational section to improve the organizational effectiveness of personnel, which will finally lead to the their creativity. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and occupational stress and creativity of the administrative personnel of the educational office of west azerbaijan province. methods and materials: this descriptive-analytical research was assessed by correlative method, during 2009-2010 academic years. the statistical population was all the administrative personnel of educational office in west azerbaijan province which was about 1569 persons (1469 males, 80 females). the studied group included 479 (409 males, 69 females) which has been selected by multistage cluster sampling method, through different stages. the research tools were halpin and croft organizational climate description questionnaire (ocdq), rice's job stress test and abedi’s pencil–paper test of creativity. the data for both descriptive and analytical level was analyzed using the two sample independent t-test and multivariate regression test findings: the results of multivariate regression showed that the effect of organizational climate in general on occupational stress and employee’s creativity was significant (p < 0.01). it was significant in men (p < 0.01) and women (p < 0.05) too. the difference between organizational climate and gender was significant (p < 0.01). but, it was not significant between creativity and stress, and gender (p > 0.05). conclusions: in the open environment some parameters such as intimacy, consideration influence, dynamism and morale can be the causes of creativity and decrease in their stress. in closed environments elements such as separation, lack of interest and commitment to their jobs, emphasis on productivity, interference and motivation reduce creativity in the personnel and increase their stress.