Dargahi Hossein
Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Management, School of Allied Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2012 Oct 21;5:7. Print 2012.
Organizational behaviors are commonly acknowledged as fundamentals of organizational life that strongly influence both formal and informal organizational processes, interpersonal relationships, work environments, and pay and promotion policies. The current study aims to investigate political behavior tendencies among employees of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). This cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was conducted on 810 TUMS employees at the headquarters of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran during 2010-2011. The research tool for data collection was a researcher-tailored questionnaire on political behaviors. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by seven management professors, and its reliability was tested by a pilot study using test-retest method which yielded a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.71. The respondents were asked to fill the questionnaire and express their perceptions and tendencies to engage in organizational behaviors. The collected data was read to and analyzed by IBM SPSS environment and correlation analytical methods. Overall, 729 respondents filled and returned the questionnaire yielding a response rate of 90%. Most of the respondents indicated that they had no tendency to engage in political behavior. Moreover, we found that there was a significant correlation between sex, higher education degrees, tenure and the employees' tendency to engage in political behavior. The participants were not overtly political because of their personal belief, ethical values, and personal characters. Non-political and overtly political employees are both prejudicial for all organizations. Therefore, it seems that the medium rate of good political behavior is vital and prevalent in Iranian organizations.
组织行为通常被视为组织生活的基础，对正式和非正式的组织过程、人际关系、工作环境以及薪酬和晋升政策都有强烈影响。本研究旨在调查德黑兰医科大学（TUMS）员工的政治行为倾向。这项横断面、描述性和分析性研究于2010 - 2011年在伊朗德黑兰医科大学总部对810名TUMS员工进行。数据收集的研究工具是一份由研究人员定制的关于政治行为的问卷。问卷的有效性由七位管理教授确认，其可靠性通过使用重测法的预试验进行测试，得到的克朗巴哈系数为0.71。要求受访者填写问卷并表达他们对参与组织行为的看法和倾向。收集到的数据在IBM SPSS环境中进行读取和分析，并采用相关分析方法。总体而言，729名受访者填写并返回了问卷，回复率为90%。大多数受访者表示他们没有参与政治行为的倾向。此外，我们发现性别、高等教育程度、任期与员工参与政治行为的倾向之间存在显著相关性。参与者由于个人信仰、道德价值观和个人性格而没有明显的政治倾向。非政治型和明显政治型员工对所有组织都有损害。因此，在伊朗组织中，良好政治行为的中等比例似乎至关重要且普遍存在。
