Analyzing the Relationship between Political Skills and Pro-Social Rule Breaking Among Sports Managers with the Mediator Role of Assertiveness

The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between political skills and Pro-social rule breaking among sports managers with a mediating role of assertiveness. In terms of purpose, this research was an applied research with a quantitative approach , it was considered as a correlational research. The statistical population of this research includes the Iran's sports (N=373), based on the Karjesi and Morgan table, 191 people were considered as a sample. The research collection tools were Fries et al.'s political skills (2007), Wardaman et al.'s (2014) pro-social rule breaking, and Ratos assertiveness (2007) questionnaires. According to the results of the research, it was found that the state of political skill and courage in the Iran's top sports managers was at a favorable level, while the state of benevolent law breaking was not significantly different from the average level. The results showed that there was political skills had a direct and significant relationship between pro-social rule breaking (r = 0. 68), political skills and assertiveness (r = 0. 89), and assertiveness on pro-social rule breaking (r = 0. 30) in senior sports managers. The results also confirmed the existence of a significant and positive effect of political skills on pro-social rule breaking with the mediation role of assertiveness in senior sports managers (r = 0. 26). The research model also had a good fit. The presence of political skills in sports managers creates a phenomenon of assertiveness in these people and increases pro-social rule breaking.