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Background: The world is changing continually and organizations as the subsystems of the world should be adapted with these changes by helping to develope of creativity and innovation.This study to evaluate the relationships between conflict management styles and creativity of staff in training hospitals in  Kerman province.

Materials & Methods:This is a cross-sectional study from aspect of descriptive -analytical. For gathering data, the standard questionnaires of conflict management for managers and creativity for staff applied. The participants in the study were all disciplinary managers from selected hospitals in one group and all disciplinary staff of selected hospitals in another group.Data analysis used in SPSS software.

Results:The results showed that there is a significant and opposite assosiation between enforcing styles and negotiating styles between managers (P<0/05, r= -0/187) and creativity of staff (P<0/05 , r= -0/155) . Meanwhile, there is a significant relation between marital status and educated staff and their creativity. This research reveales that avoiding styles applied among men is less than women.

Conclusion: To develop creativity of staff and managers should decrease using of enforcing and negotiating styles to solve the conflicts in hospitals.

Background: Providing high quality, safe and effective health care services requires competent and motivated employees. Employee’s creativity plays a significant role in motivation and health care system productivity. Various individual and organizational factors influence employees’ creativity. This study aimed to examine the relationship between managers’ leadership style and employees’ creativity in Qazvin hospitals.

Materials and Methods: Creativity and leadership questionnaires were used to conduct this descriptive and cross-sectional study. The questionnaires were distributed among 800 employees in ten hospitals using stratified sampling method. Descriptive and analytical methods utilized for data analysis using SPSS software.

Results: The mean score of hospital employees’ creativity was 47.5 out of 60 (moderate level). The prevalent leadership style of managers was transformational. There was a significant statistical association between employees’ creativity and managers’ transformational leadership style.

• Since, leadership styles of hospital managers influence employees’ creativity, they have to apply appropriate leadership style to motivate employees and develop their creativity in order to improve hospital productivity.

Background: Today, the organizations have found their need to a strategic planning for valuation of knowledge management. One of the most important elements for knowledge management is organizational creativity and innovation. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge management and organizational creativity and innovation among Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was a descriptive-analytical one which conducted in 120 employees of teaching hospital in 2015-2016. The study questionnaire included three questionnaires as Probst’s knowledge management questionnaire, researcher made questionnaire for organizational creativity, Patchen’s organizational innovation questionnaire and demographic information. SPSS software version 21 utilized to data analysis using descriptive statistics, independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient at the significant level of less than 0.05.
Results: The study results revealed that there was a relationship between knowledge management and creativity (r=0.661, P<0.001) and organizational innovation (r=0.325, P<0.001). Also, there was a significant association between organizational creativity with innovation (P=0.02).
Conclusion: Development of knowledge management could increase the rate of organizational creativity and innovation. Therefore, the policymakers, leaders and managers of hospitals should establish the knowledge management system to improve the organizational creativity and innovation, and finally promote the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital practice.