The Role of Organizational Culture in Preventing Corruption of NAJA Employees (Case Study, Hormozgan Province Disciplinary Command)

This study investigates the role of organizational culture as one of the main preventive factors in reducing corruption. The research is applied in terms of purpose and its method is descriptive-correlational. In order to collect data, the standard questionnaire of Denison Organizational Culture (2000) and the standard questionnaire of Abdollahi Corruption (2013) were used. The statistical population of this study included all employees of the Hormozgan police headquarters. The statistical sample is 195 people based on Cochran's formula who were selected by simple random sampling. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by professors and experts and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha formula for the organizational culture questionnaire of 0.91 and the corruption questionnaire of 0.78, respectively. SPSS software and Spearman correlation coefficient, regression and Friedman test were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that organizational culture and its factors (participatory, stability and integration, flexibility and mission) have a significant effect on corruption. Also, according to Friedman test, flexibility with a coefficient of 2.82 is the first priority. As a result, it has the greatest effect on corruption, followed by stability and integration with a coefficient of 2.68 in the second priority, and a mission with a coefficient of 1.96 in the fourth and final rank, which has the least effect on corruption in the NAJA. As a result, the article has tried to highlight the role of the desired organizational culture, to create a good environment to increase the knowledge of managers of organizations to prevent the occurrence of undesirable phenomena called corruption.