THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGERS’ POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMPLOYEES’ POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY IN TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Abstract

Human resource is among important assets of organizations. Therefore, understanding the employees’ behaviors especially their political behaviors by managers is significantly important. The managers can perform successfully using their political intelligence in predicting and controlling the employees’ political behaviors in organizations. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship be-tween managers’ political intelligence and employees’ political behaviors in headquarters departments of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in 2017-2018. This research is a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study. The data collection tools were two validated researcher-made questionnaires namely political intelligence and political behavior questionnaires. The statistical population of this research included the sta˙ and senior and middle managers of the headquarters departments in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Stratified sampling was used to select the participants. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. Mean, frequency, frequency percentage and standard deviation were used to present the descriptive findings, and K2 and Pearson correlation tests were applied to report the inferential results. There was a significant di˙erence among the employees in di˙erent headquar-ters departments in terms of their political behaviors (P=0.008). The findings showed that managers’ political intelligence and employees’ political behaviors were moderately upward; however,no signifi-cant relationship was found between managers’ political intelligence and employees’ political behaviors (P>0.05). It is recommended that TUMS managers should increase their political intelligence by par-ticipation in organizational behavior workshops and apply other methods especially political behavior management to predict or control of their employees.