Factors influencing the creativity and innovation in managers of military and civilian hospitals in Tehran, Iran

Introduction:hospitals, like other organizations in the community for survival and development are managers need creative and innovative. breeding and training of such managers appropriate demand shall provide the platform that its determination requires the understanding of factors affecting innovation and creativity of people is.aim :factors influencing creativity and innovation managers, both military and civilian hospitals in tehran. methods:cross-sectional study method was conducted. senior managers and middle managers in nine selected military and civilian hospitals in tehran (90) the study formed. data collection was conducted by questionnaire. data obtained from 90 questionnaires, using spss software for analysis and comparison of mean scores obtained in different groups anova was used. results:results showed that the most organizational factors achieving points with 56.2 and the subsets of organizational factors, factors related to the reward system earned the highest score. the most important factors affecting innovation, hospital managers, and individual factors achieving points with 83.2 was identified among a subset of individual factors, factors related to science, knowledge and expertise manager earned the highest score. conclusions :according to the results, providing a suitable environment and good for the field organization may encourage hospitals to create innovative managers. to create such an environment also reform the payment systems and designing a suitable payment system in hospitals, action seems necessary. change the prevailing culture in hospitals and innovation become the norm and a positive value, the benefit is not empty.