Organizational Values and their Relationship to the Creative Behavior of Employees

(An applied study on Employees in the Babylon Investment Authority)

Abstract

The current research addressed two important variables, which are organizational values ​​and creative behavior of employees. The research aimed to identify the dimensions of organizational values ​​(management management, task management, human relations management, environmental management) and their level on the research sample, then measure the relationship between them and the creative behavior of employees in the Babylon Investment Commission in the Republic of Iraq. The questionnaire was used, the first part of which included personal and functional information describing the sample, and the second part included (32) phrases describing the study variables (organizational values ​​and creative behavior of workers). The questionnaire was distributed to a sample consisting of (55(,The responses were subjected to statistical analysis. The research results showed that the respondents’ perceptions of organizational values ​​and creative behavior were high. Thus, the null hypothesis was rejected, which states that there is no statistically significant relationship between organizational values ​​and the dependent variable at a significance level of 0.05. Then the regression equation concluded that the dimensions of the four organizational values, namely (administration management explained 60% of the variance in the dependent variable, then human relations management explained 61%, task management 72%, and environmental management 78%). The study recommended that administrative organizations pay attention to organizational values ​​by training administrative leaders on how to deal with these values ​​positively, as they are the basis for achieving their goals, and writing and discussing these values ​​so that employees can understand them and adopt them during their work, in addition to giving employees confidence to present their ideas and creative energies and discussing these ideas and benefiting from them for the benefit of the organization.