Designing and explaining the political behavior model of managers in government organizations

The purpose of the current research is to design and explain the political behavior model of managers in government organizations. The research method is applicable in terms of purpose, qualitative in terms of execution method, and inductive-deductive in terms of the logic of data collection. The statistical population includes 30 experts (professors and managers of government organizations), selected by purposeful sampling. Data collection tools include semi-structured interviews. In the data analysis, thematic analysis and the MICMAC software were used, and to prioritize the factors affecting political behavior, for the interpretative structural approach, the ism method was used. The results of the findings showed that 11 main categories were identified in 6 levels. Also, the findings showed that in the sixth level, social cultural gap and personality traits of people had the most effect compared to other factors, although cultural weakness was the most effective factor. Public belief is placed at the fifth level of the model. At the fourth level, there are political will of people and image management and organizational evaluation. At the third level, there is the individual power of people. Organizational processes and organizational elections and appointments are at the second level, and at the last level are the model of laws and regulations and the structure of government organizations.