The effect of participative management perspective on individual creativity: The case of Turkish Employment Agency

Organizations today, serve in global markets with rapidly developing technology, increasing competition environment and changing consumer preferences. For this reason, organizations have realized that the human factor is an important element and they are turning to practices to increase their individual creativity by ensuring that employees have a say in the management and participate in the management. However, there is not enough research in the literature examining the effects of participatory management approach on individual creativity. Although there are some empirical studies on this subject in public institutions and organizations, there is no research evaluating this issue in the Turkish Employment Agency. Our study focuses on revealing how and in what way the participatory management approach affects individual creativity in order to eliminate the lack of findings in the field. The universe of the research consists of employees of the Turkish Employment Agency (n=8882). In the study, data were collected with a questionnaire form consisting of a 13 item scale adapted from the creativity scale of Zhou and George (2001) by Gümüşlüoğlu and İlsev (2007) and a participatory management scale designed by the Tutor (2006). The data collected in order to test the models and hypotheses of the research, using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) statistical program; correlation, simple regression and multiple regression analyzes were performed. As a result of the analyzes made; it has been found that the participatory management and sub-dimensions of participatory management, determining vision, forming working groups, decision making, training of employees, creative environment, motivation, change and communication, have a statistically significant and positive effect on individual creativity behavior. Finally, some of the limitations of this research are given, and some suggestions for managers and organizations are presented based on the findings in the study, and some suggestions for researchers related to the subject in the future are included.