The Relationship between Proactive Personality and Openness to Experience with Organizational Creativity Considering the Mediating Role of Creative Self-efficacy in Karoon Gas and Oil Company

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between proactive personality and openness to experience organizational creativity in employees of Karoon Gas and Oil Company. In this research, ۳۵۰ people from company staff members were selected by a stratified random sampling method. In order to gather data, questionnaires of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (Mc Cra & Costa, ۱۹۸۵), the Proactive Personality Scale of (Batman & Crant, ۱۹۹۳), the Creative Self-Efficacy Scale of (Yi, Scheithauer & Lin, ۲۰۰۸), and Employee Creativity Questionnaire of (Zhou & George, ۲۰۰۱) were used. After data collection, the correlation coefficient of Pierson was used in data analysis and in order to evaluate the fitness of the proposed model, the structural equation model (SEM) was applied. To determine the significance of the intermediate relations, the Bootstrap method in Macro software was used. Results showed that direct paths from proactive personality to organizational creativity (p≤۰.۰۵), openness to experience to creative self-efficacy (p≤۰.۰۱), and creative self-efficacy to organizational creativity (p≤۰.۰۱) were significant. Structural equation modeling fitness indicators showed that the modified model best fitted the results.

کلیدواژه ها:

Organizational Creativity ، Openness to Experience ، Proactive Personality ، Creative Self-efficacy