Examining the Factors Affecting on Administrative Corruption Along with an Attitude to Bureaucratic Health in Governmental Organizations (Case Study: Mining Sector of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade)

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Manzar Ahmadi ¹ , Ebrahim Mottaghi ² , Alireza Mohseni Tabrizi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student of Political Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-01-23 Accepted : 2023-02-24 Published : 2023-03-01

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Abstract :

Struggling with administrative corruption and bureaucratic health is a vital issue in many developing countries, including Iran, and it wastes a lot of time, energy, and facilities from these countries. The platform and haven of administrative corruption is the administrative system and the administration of governmental affairs, and also, in a ministry of Industry, mines and trade, due to its role in the country's economic system, the existence of bureaucratic health and aware of the factors affecting it are important. Therefore, in this research, the main purpose is to examine the factors affecting organizational corruption with an attitude to bureaucratic health, and all the employees and managers of the ministry of industry, mining and trade have been considered as the statistical population (1100 subjects). The sample size is 285 subjects and simple random sampling method has been used for sampling. Data analysis was implemented in the framework of descriptive and inferential statistics in aid of SPSS 23 software. As a result of the research, it can be said that the most significant factors affecting administrative efficiency that lead to the reduction of administrative efficiency in the mining sector of the ministry of mines, industry and trade are efficient supervision - meritocracy in ordinations - employee accountability - organizational justice - organizational trust - occupational satisfaction - organizational commitment of employees - existence of just reward and punishment system - subsistence provision for employees- absence of accountability before employees. Moreover, these factors explain a total of 21.4% concerned with the dependent variable i.e. bureaucratic health, that is the amount of efficiency of these factors in total in increasing bureaucratic health and as a result reducing administrative corruption is 21.4%, that should be drawn the attention of personnel and planners in the field of this ministry.