Relationship between Intra-Organizational Factors and Political Behavior Based on Moderating Role of Political Skill and Political Will in Sport Industry

The study is to investigate the relationship between intra-organizational factors and political behavior based on moderating role of political skills and political will in the sports industry. The research method is a descriptive co relational design. The statistical population includes all employees of the Ministry of Sport and federations, which is over 1500. Of the federations, four team sports federations and four individual sports federations were selected based on popularity among federations. The sample consists of 350 people who were selected by available non-random sampling method. A questionnaire was used to measure the variables studied. In order to study the proposed model, structural equation method was used using SPSS-19 and PLS software. The findings indicated that the relationship between intra-organizational factors, political skill and political will was not significant with political behavior. The relationship between intra-organizational factors with political skill and political will were significant. Also, the findings showed that the political skill and political will moderated the relationship between intra-organizational factors and political behavior. According to the results of this research, it is suggested to managers and authorities of the organizations to consider the role of intra-organizational factors, political skill and political will on different aspects of organizational politics.