Relationship of Knowledge Management with Creativity of School Managers

Purpose of this research examines the relationship between knowledge management with creativity of school manager. The research method was descriptive from type of correlation. Statistical population included 220 people from manager of pre-university and high school in Rasht in 2011-2012 academic years that were selected by stratified random sampling. Tools for data collection questionnaire of knowledge management were with 33 items and creativity questionnaire with 50 items. Questionnaire of knowledge management made based on Lawson questionnaire (2003) and was adjusted according to population desired and was with range of four-degree Likert. Both questionnaire in term of face and content validity were confirmed by experts. Also was validated by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated and confirmed relibility of knowledge and creativity questionnaire. A total of 160 questionnaires distributed, 140 questionnaires were returned between managers of target population. For data analysis was used correlation coefficient, multiple linear correlations by SPSS statistical software. The results showed that there is positive and significant relationship between knowledge management and it dimensions include knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge organizing, knowledge storage, knowledge dissemination, and application of knowledge with creativity. Also results of stepwise regression analysis showed that knowledge management (collection factors together) has effect on creativity and it has predictive power of the criterion variable. Determination coefficient showed that about 42% of creativity variabile could be explained by knowledge management.

Knowledge Management, Creativity, Managers, Schools