Introduction: Knowledge management is an important concept and it clarifies how individual and organizational understandings convert to knowledge. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between organizational creativity and knowledge management of nurses at hospitals in Borujerd city in Iran.
Methods: This study was a descriptive-correlational study consists of all nurses working at Borujerd hospitals. 175 nurses based on inclusion criteria and convenience sampling method was participated. To collect data three questionnaires include demographic, “Rand-sip’s Creativity Questionnaire” and “Hemmati Knowledge Management Questionnaires” were used. In this study, reliability was calculated for two questionnaires by Cronbach's alpha method. Data was analyzed using SPSS/19.
Results: Average score of organizational creativity and knowledge management among nurses were 50.92±13 and 52.65±3.32 respectively. Results show, a significant positive correlation between organizational creativity and knowledge management of nurses (P < 0.001, r = 0.672). Among the sub-scales of knowledge management, the knowledge sharing and application of knowledge had a significant relation to organizational creativity. (P = 0.025, r = 0.113).