Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 PhD of Measurement and Measurement of Allameh Tabatabaei University and Head of assessment center in Nation Iran Oil Company, Tehran, Iran

2 MA of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, and Responsible for Designing The Competency Model of the National Iranian Oil Company Employee Evaluation Center, Tehran, Iran

3 PhD Student in Measurement, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Introduction
Organizations' success in the ever-changing world depends on the human resource's creative capacity to translate their ideas into new and innovative products and services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of Torrance’s creative thinking test (reliability and validity) in employees of an industrial company.
 
Method
The sample of this study was selected by simple random sampling method from all the employees of the company who participated in the assessment center process between 2013 and 2018. Finally, 615 employees were
selected as the research sample.
 
Results
The research method was descriptive. Scores of Torrance’ creative thinking test, interview and group game processes were used for data analyses. The software used in this analysis were SPSS-25 and Lisrel 8.8. Cronbach's alpha and split-half methods were used to evaluate the reliability of this instrument. In order to investigate the construct validity of this test, confirmatory factor analysis was used, Also convergent validity through Pearson correlation analysis was concerned.
 
Discussion
The findings showed that Torrance’s creative thinking test had acceptable validity and reliability for using in the workplace that justifies its use to measure employee creativity alongside other activities such as interview and game group.

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