The relationship between organizational support and creative climate with the development of entrepreneurship through intermediation of empowerment and creativity in library staff

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mozhgan ghasemi ¹
• a f ²
• f s ²
• n a ²

¹ Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Masjed_ Soleyman Branch,Islamic Azad university, Masjed_ Soleyman,Iran (Corresponding author)

² a

Abstract

.At the present time, employees’ innovative thoughts and ideas can be assumed as the origin of the big changes in organizations. The present study aims to investigate the relationship of the perceived organizational support and organizational creative climate with the entrepreneurial development among the library employees where creativity and psychological empowerment serve as the mediations. The population of the study includes 410 employees of Khuzestan Province Public Library Institution who were selected by random stratified sampling method and responded the organizational creative climate, perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment, organizational creativity questionnaires and also the entrepreneurial behavior inventory. For analyzing the data, in addition to use of descriptive methods (mean, Standard Deviation and correlation matrix), structural equation model (SEM) was used for evaluating the proposed model with the help of AMOS 21. Mediating relationships were tested in the proposed model by bootstrap method. Fit indices such as GFI, CGI and RESMA have necessary quorum indicating that the proposed model fits with data. Results of the study show the significance of all direct paths of perceived organizational support and organizational creative climate towards the entrepreneurial development and as the insignificant paths were deleted, the model was modified and corrected. Fit indices of structural equation model showed the suitable fitness of modified model. Meanwhile, results of indirect relationships confirmed the significance of these relations.

Keywords

• Perceived organizational support
• Creative organizational climate
• Entrepreneurship development
• Empowerment
• Creativity

20.1001.1.22285516.1398.10.35.6.1

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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