The Relationship of the Creativity of Public and Private School Teachers to their Intrinsic Motivation and the School Climate for Innovation

Abstract

Ankara University Educational Administration PhD Programme, Ankara, 06590, TurkeyThe climate for innovation is related with organizational outputs comprising the benefits of ideas, significant innovations and satisfaction of the employees and the service takers; and sophisticated applications of the effectiveness of the services as perceived by service takers. It indicates an organizational willingness necessary for experiencing innovative ideas. As for intrinsic motivation, it can be defined as the experience of one's exposing his/her own talents or abilities. Intrinsically motivated people have the ability of multi faceted reasoning and using various learning strategies. Then intrinsically motivated individuals are expected to be more creative and make innovative efforts to support organizational goals. The goal of this study is to discover the relationship of the creativity levels of the teachers to their intrinsic motivation levels and climates of schools for innovation.

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