Social determinants of tendency to administrative and financial corruption among government employees in JAHROM

Subject Areas : sociology

SAMIRA RAHMANIAN ¹ , MAJIDREZA KARIMI ² , Keramatollah Rasekh ³

1 - PhD Student in Political Sociology, JAHROM Branch, Islamic Azad University, JAHROM, Iran
2 - *Assistant Professor of Social Department, JAHROM Branch, Islamic Azad University, JAHROM, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, JAHROM Branch, Islamic Azad University, JAHROM

Received: 2020-12-24 Accepted : 2021-04-10 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: Organizational Justice, religiosity, Organizational Culture, Work Conscience, Financial Corruption,

Abstract :

Purpose of this study was to investigate social determinants of tendency to administrative and financial corruption among government employees in JAHROM. Method used in this study is survey. Statistical population is all government employees in JAHROM city and four hundred persons have selected as a sample using systematic sampling method. Study tool is questionnaire and its face validity method used to determining its validity and Cronbach's alpha method used to determining its reliability. Descriptive results of this study indicate that average tendency to corruption among employees of JAHROM is low. Analytical results of study revealed that among components of study, work conscience, religiosity, participatory organizational culture and flexibility have a positive and significant effect on tendency to financial corruption. Among demographic variables, relationship between job type, social class and income with tendency to corruption is significant. Specifying dependent variable according to sum of independent variables indicated that five variables include organizational culture, work conscience; social class, income and organizational culture integration are strongest predictors of corruption tendency respectively and they are capable to specifying 0/203 changes of tendency to financial corruption. Research findings are compare with similar results. Finally, suggestions has made to prevent spread of corruption.

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