Investigation of Teachers' Perceptions on Organizational Creativity

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The aim of this research is to reveal the perceptions of teachers in thecontext of organizational creativity and to examine their experiences. Thestudy group of the research consists of 10 teachers working in the publicschools of the Ministry of National Education in the spring term of the2023-2024 academic year, five of whom received the Global TeachersAward. Semi-structured interview technique was used in the research. Thedata obtained were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive analysismethods. In consequence of the interviews with 10 teachers, the themes ofopinions on the characteristics of a creative organization, the way in whichcreative ideas are expressed and evaluated in the organization, positive andnegative aspects of organizational creativity, evaluation of managerial,educational and social activities in the context of creativity, managementstrategies that can be creatively evaluated, characteristics of a creativemanagement approach and manager, characteristics of a creative teacher,characteristics of a creative student and suggestions for increasingcreativity in schools were identified. As a result, it was seen that theopinions of the teachers who received awards and the teachers who didnot receive awards did not differ much. The necessity and importance ofproviding a working environment where everyone is in the same boat,where they can easily express their new ideas and suggestions, and thenecessity and importance of updating or improving the conditions in a waythat they can realize their new ideas or suggestions were emphasized.