List of Articles Political skills

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  1 - An Analysis of the Advanced Model of the Political Skills of Managers in the Public Organization
  samin yousefi masoud pourkiani mehrdad goudarzvand chegini
  Background-Today, politics has become a basic skill for managers and is considered as an important factor in management effectiveness. Hence, increasing such a skill is necessary to achieve the desired results. Purpose-The purpose of the research is to analyze the evolu More

  Background-Today, politics has become a basic skill for managers and is considered as an important factor in management effectiveness. Hence, increasing such a skill is necessary to achieve the desired results. Purpose-The purpose of the research is to analyze the evolutions and factors associated with the political skills of managers in the public sector. Method-This is a descriptive-correlational study that has been done by survey method. Data were collected from a sample of 345 ministry directors by cluster sampling. Samples were randomly selected from the provinces of Guilan, Tehran, Mazandaran, Khorasanzarzavi and Kerman. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire and its validity was confirmed by using expert opinion and by using an analytical method. According to factor coefficients of the variables estimated above 0.4, validity was confirmed. The reliability of the instrument was also confirmed through the Cronbach alpha coefficient. Structural equation modeling and Amos software were used to analyze the data. Results-The results of the research model showed that the components of individual factors (except narcissism), Job factors(except occupational feedback), organizational factors(except organization's focus and size) and factors of environmental factors predict the managers' political skills, and all components have a positive and significant relationship Have a political skill other than the official variable, which has a negative and inverse relationship with political skill. Also, according to Friedman test results, it can be said that among the predictors of job variables, the most positive relationship is with the managers' political skills and the individual, environmental and organizational factors are respectively in the second, third and fourth grades respectively. Conclusions-The findings of the research show that managers, by strengthening some of the factors related to political skill, can take steps to increase their political skills in the organization Manuscript profile
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  2 - Analyzing the Relationship between Political Skills and Pro-Social Rule Breaking Among Sports Managers with the Mediator Role of Assertiveness
  Davood Nasr Esfahani somayeh rahbari Ruhollah Ramyar
  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 More

  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. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Investigating the effect of perceived political atmosphere on emotional commitment with the transformative role of teamwork and political skill
  Faramarz Tahmasebi Alireza tamizi sheida Orafaye Jamshidi
  Organizations need cooperation and teamwork to succeed in the current situation. On the other hand, lack of resources, the existence of inconsistent goals and individual and group conflicts have turned organizations into political arenas. In this regard, the present stu More

  Organizations need cooperation and teamwork to succeed in the current situation. On the other hand, lack of resources, the existence of inconsistent goals and individual and group conflicts have turned organizations into political arenas. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived political atmosphere on emotional commitment by considering the moderating role of teamwork and political skill. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive (survey) in terms of how to collect data and is specifically based on the structural equation model (SEM). The statistical population of the present study is all employees of the governorate and program and budget management of Yazd (248 people). According to Morgan's table, the minimum number of samples can be selected 148 people. Data were collected through a questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed using content validity and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. The questionnaires were distributed by convenience sampling and the data were analyzed using PLS software. The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between perceived political atmosphere and emotional commitment. In addition, political skill modulates the effect of perceived political climate on emotional commitment. In other words, the amount and use of political skills in the organization affects the intensity of the relationship between the two variables, but the transformative role of teamwork in the relationship between perceived political space and emotional commitment was not confirmed. Manuscript profile
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  4 - Investigating the Effect of Perceived Political Atmosphere on Emotional Commitment with the Transformative Role of Teamwork and Political Skill
  Faramarz tahmasebi Alireza tamizi sheida Orafaye Jamshidi
  Organizations need cooperation and teamwork to succeed in the current situation. On the other hand, lack of resources, the existence of inconsistent goals and individual and group conflicts have turned organizations into political arenas. In this regard, the present stu More

  Organizations need cooperation and teamwork to succeed in the current situation. On the other hand, lack of resources, the existence of inconsistent goals and individual and group conflicts have turned organizations into political arenas. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived political atmosphere on emotional commitment by considering the moderating role of teamwork and political skill. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive (survey) in terms of how to collect data and is specifically based on the structural equation model (SEM). The statistical population of the present study is all employees of the governorate and program and budget management of Yazd (248 people). According to Morgan's table, the minimum number of samples can be selected 148 people. Data were collected through a questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed using content validity and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. The questionnaires were distributed by convenience sampling and the data were analyzed using PLS software. The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between perceived political atmosphere and emotional commitment. In addition, political skill modulates the effect of perceived political climate on emotional commitment. In other words, the amount and use of political skills in the organization affects the intensity of the relationship between the two variables, but the transformative role of teamwork in the relationship between perceived political space and emotional commitment was not confirmed. Manuscript profile