Identifying, Explaining and Measuring the Causes of Forming Political Behaviors with an Organizational Approach in Iranian Governmental Organizations

This research was conducted with a developmental-applied purpose and with a descriptive-analytical nature in order to identify, explain and measure the effective organizational characteristics in the formation and occurrence of political behaviors in government organizations in a combined (qualitative-quantitative) method. In the qualitative section, using Delphi method, 20 professors and scientific experts were selected as Delphi panels with a combined method of judgment- snowball and were surveyed with a researcher-made questionnaire that organizational components including performance appraisal system, payroll and reward system, Participation in decision making, policy making of managers, organizational justice, progress and promotion, resource scarcity, ambiguity in staff goals and strategy and tasks, organizational conflict and organizational structure were identified and explained. In the quantitative section, based on the results of the qualitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed and distributed among 284 employees of the oil industry in Gachsaran region who were selected by simple random method. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and the results showed that the above ten organizational components are significantly related to the formation of political behavior.