After years of investigating the effective factors on performance in organizations, management has concluded that workplace architecture is one of the most important variables. Expanded research areas of management, it was found that workplace architecture can easily play a vital role in productivity, creativity, entrepreneurship, motivation, satisfaction and … while changing or improving the architectures and designs were mostly impossible because of disconnection between management and architecture. Nowadays, speaking the same language, architecture and management try to improve workplace environment to increase organizational productivity. In this study we have investigated the relationship between organizational creativity as an important factor of developing and workplace architecture an effective factor of creativity. To gain this goal after reviewing the literature, 260 questionnaires were distributed among 80 active knowledge-based companies in Khorasan Razavi Science and Technology Park and Ferdowsi university of Mashhad incubator. Analysis via SEM by AMOS software shows that workplace architecture strongly influences on organizational creativity, especially through "Work surfaces" and "Daylight and view" factors.

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