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Background/purpose – The continuity of society is ensured through schools where educational activities are formally conducted. There exists a wide range of tasks that are assigned to educational systems and schools, and three concepts play a critical role for the successful completion of those tasks: school climate, individual innovativeness, and teacher autonomy. The aim of this study was to investigate whether teacher autonomy had a mediating role in the relationship between school climate and teachers' individual innovativeness. Materials/methods – The relational survey model was used in the study, with 617 elementary school teachers selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected using three scales: the School climate scale, the Teacher autonomy scale, and the Individual innovativeness scale. The collected data were analyzed using regression and correlation analyses. In addition, Bootstrap analysis was performed through IBM SPSS v.24.0 (Hayes, 2013) with PROCESS Macro 3 and “Simple Mediation Model 4” used to examine the significance of the mediation effect. Results – The findings revealed that a positive, moderate, and significant relationship exists between school climate, individual innovativeness, and teacher autonomy. Bootstrap analysis showed that teacher autonomy had a significant mediating effect in the relationship between school climate and individual innovativeness. Furthermore, the Sobel test proved the significant mediating effect of teacher autonomy since the Z value was at the desired level. Conclusion – It was found that teacher autonomy had a mediating role in the relationship between school climate and teacher innovativeness. Since this is the first study to examine the mediation effect of teacher autonomy on the relationship between teacher innovativeness and school climate, further research is needed with different samples to verify the findings.

INTRODUCTION: This research was designed as a descriptive and relational type in order to determine organizational citizenship and innovative behavior levels of manager nurses. METHODS: This research was carried out with 147 manager nurses between June 2016 and February 2017 in Inonu University Turgut Ozal Medical Center and Malatya State Hospital in Malatya province center. In the data accumulation, "personal information form", "organizational citizenship level scale" and "individual innovation scale" were used. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test were used in the analyses of the data. RESULTS: In this survey, it was determined that most of the manager nurses were female, average 43+-1 years old, majority of them had a bachelor degree and professional experiences were generally more than 10 years. It was found that organizational citizenship and innovative behavior levels of manager nurses was not influenced by gender, age and the duration of working as a manager; however, education, hospital type, working in the same institution and unit were effective. It was determined that the level of organizational citizenship of manager nurses was related to the levels of individual innovativeness. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was found that organizational citizenship was affected by individual innovativeness behaviors and it is suggested that the study should be repeated in different nursing groups.

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the relationship between knowledge sharing with individual innovation Allameh Tabatabai University graduate students in academic year 93-94, the survey was conducted. The study sample consisted of all graduate students in the School of Education, Psychology, Management and Accounting Pardis 1 and 2 of which there are 3977 people.The research sample consisted of 153 was determined on the basis of Morgan. And the class participants were selected randomly .The data from two scale, knowledge sharing by Nvrad Sadiq (1388) and individual innovation scale by Momeni Nour (1382) were collected. The Cronbach's alpha reliability of both scales, respectively,were 0/71 and 0/81. The results of multiple regression and t-test showed that a significant relationship exists between knowledge sharing and individual innovation. The multiple regression analysis with step by step method showed that knowledge sharing is dont able to predict individual innovation. The University should create an atmosphere of open exchange of originality which is emphasized so that students are more willing to share their new knowledge with each other and have their application

Purpose of this paper is development for pattern of a measuring and analysing of innovation in research institutes in vehicle industry. This scale include 3 area: individual innovation, organizational innovation & nature and strength of innovation in current situation. Samples selected in 2 research institute NPD & IPCO in Iran Khodro, by accident. According to factor loading, identified latent factors. Reliability of explored models toward any factor of analysis of innovation, assessed by CFA. Results showed this reliability. Finally,7 conceptual models of relation between evident concept and latent factors and a general model explored and confirmed based on different index of comeliness.