Authors : Reza Dehnavieh, Elaheh Hasanzadeh, Mohamad Hossein Mehralhasani, Hosein Ibrahimi Pour, Marzieh Shahheidari and Somayeh Noori Hekmat
Abstract: The overall purpose of this research is to determine the most important of individual and organizational factors that influence on creativity and innovation of the senior managers of Iran University of Medical Sciences. A sample of 66 managers was used to achieve the research purpose. Data collection was done through questionnaire. The questionnaires were handed out to all senior managers of university and after being collected were analyzed by the statistical software SPSS. The most significant factors influencing the creativity of the people, under the study were organizational factors (average 68.2%) and the most important factors influencing the innovation of people, under study were individual factors (average 89.4%). By studying the factors that can influence them, university understand that it is necessary to pay more attention to recruit creative managers in university and focus on factors relating to knowledge, information and expertise.
Reza Dehnavieh, Elaheh Hasanzadeh, Mohamad Hossein Mehralhasani, Hosein Ibrahimi Pour, Marzieh Shahheidari and Somayeh Noori Hekmat, 2010. Factors Influencing Creativity and Innovation of the Senior Managers of Iran University of Medical Sciences-2010. Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 5: 708-712.