Evaluation of the Role of Political and Communication Skills in Social Responsibility of Managers by the Mediating Role of Strategic Thinking

Hamid Taboli,Ghazanfar Baghadam

doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4s1p323

Abstract

The research has been conducted to evaluate the role of political and communication skills in social responsibility of managers by the mediating role of strategic thinking. This research was done by descriptive – analytic method and it is from the type of applied researchs. The statistical population of the study includes all managers of the company of Arjan, Pegah. The sample size was calculated by Cochran formula with the result of 32 people. Data collection tools in this study are: Corporate Social Responsibility of employees (CSR) based on the model of Carroll, Barton's communication skills questionnaire, political skill questionnaire of individual in organization and strategic thinking questionnaire (model Lydka). The validity of the questionnaire was face and content, and its reliability was assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The results showed that, in general, political skill, communication skill and strategic thinking had a direct and significant relationship with responsibility of managers. Path analysis also showed that among the different aspects of research variables, feedback skill, network skill, social intelligence, strategic determination, opportunism and thinking at the time had direct impact and listening skill, network skill and social intelligence had indirect effect on social responsibility as well. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4S1p323

Highlights

Social responsibility is a sense of obligation to make a personal reaction in various situations because of commitment to others
The results of the study showed that, overall, communication and political skills and strategic thinking have had a significant relationship with social responsibility of managers
The results of path analysis showed that the dimensions of political skill have had direct and indirect effects on social responsibility

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Introduction

Social responsibility is a sense of obligation to make a personal reaction in various situations because of commitment to others. Political skill is beyond the ease and convenience of communication and focuses on the management of interaction with others effectively so that it leads to achieve individual and organizational objectives (Frazer et al, 2005; Hoquater et al, 2007; Brewer et al, 2006). Political skill is a distinct form of social skill, which its aim is to achieve success and realize the goals in the individual and organizational levels. According the results mentioned in this research, it has tried to examine the relationship between communication and political skills with social responsibility by the mediating role of strategic thinking among managers in accordance with the following pattern

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