Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background and Objectives: No doubt, in one hand, organizational intelligence as a capability of an organization to create mental power and in the other hand nurturing creativity, finding creative minds and making use of employee’s creativity must be regarded important by managers of an organization. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between organizational intelligence and employee’s creativity for the staff of the medical training center in hospitals affiliated to North Khorasan University. Materials and Methods: The present study is descriptive –analytical. The statistical population includes the whole staff of the medical training centers in hospitals affiliated to North Khorasan University (n=1050) in 2012-2013. The sample group (n=286) was selected by the stratified proportionate method using Morgan Table. The data was collected using two questionnaires: 1. Albericht Standard Organizational Intelligence Questionnaire (reliability rate= 95%) 2. Rendsip Standard Creativity Questionnaire (reliability rate= 88%). The collected data was analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software. Results: On the whole, there was no significant statistical relationship between organizational intelligence and creativity (p=0.061). Some dimensions of organizational intelligence (strategic vision, knowledge and performance) showed significant relationship with creativity. Knowledge was more influential in employee’s creativity (p=0.024) than strategic vision Conclusion: Since organizational intelligence and its parameters play an important role in capacity building and promotion of organizational knowledge, and on the other hand since it is very important to create a creative climate in organization, managers of organization must provide a suitable climate for creativity in the organization based on effective parameters of organizational intelligence