The Role of Innovation Management in Organizational Trust and Work Consciousness of English Language School Teachers in Iran

Abstract

The present research study aimed to investigate the role of innovation management in organizational trust and work consciousness of English language school teachers in Iran, Karaj city. This research was a descriptive-correlational study. To estimate the size of the statistical sample, Krejcie & Morgan's (1970) table was used. There were 122 male and 104 female participants in the current study. To collect data, the Innovation Management (IM) (Moghimi & Ramadan, 2011), Organizational Trust (OT) (Shafiee, 2011), and Work Consciousness (WC) (Costa & McCrae, 1992) questionnaires were used. The results showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between innovation management organizational trust and the work consciousness of the teachers. Besides, there was no significant difference between males' and females’ innovation management and organizational trust status in terms of gender while a significant difference was found in terms of females’ work consciousness. However, no significant difference was found between single and married teachers’ innovation management, organizational trust, and work consciousness. Furthermore, there was a significant difference in teachers’ innovation management in terms of their academic degree while there was no significant difference between teachers’ organizational trust and work consciousness. Likewise, no significant difference was found between teachers’ innovation management and organizational trust in terms of their work experience, whereas there was a significant difference between teachers’ work consciousness in terms of their work experiences.