Relationship between organizational structure and creativity in teaching hospitals

Introduction: organization structure and manpower constitute two basiccomponents of anorganization and both are necessary for stablishing anorganization. the aim of this survey was to investigate the type of theorganization structure (mechanic and organic) from viewpoint of senior andjunior managers in shiraz teaching hospitals and creativity in each of these twostructures.methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study, organizationstructure and organizational creation questionnaires were filled out by hospitalmanagers according to the statistical consultation and due to limited targetpopulation, the entire study population was considered as sample. thus, thesample size in this study was 84 (12 hospitals and every hospital, n = 7). fordata analysis, spss 14 was used and spearman correlation coefficient and t-testwere used.results: results showed that there is a negative association between centralizationand complexity with organizational creation and its dimensions. also therewas a negative association between formalization and 4 organizational creationdimensions: reception change, accepting ambiguity, abet new view and lesscontrol outside (p=0.001).conclusion: the results of this study showed that the creation in hospitals withorganic structure is more than that in hospitals with mechanic structure.