en روانشناسی ورزشی و شاخه‌های وابسته بدان Sport Psychology and its Related Branches مقاله اصیل Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>Background. </strong>When asked about employees&#39; political behavior in the workplace, they often see it as signs of good behavior and see it as an ugly act that achieves personal goals at the expense of others, and May be harmful to the goals of the organization or individuals.<br> <strong>Objectives. </strong>This study aimed to test a model of factors affecting political behavior in the sports industry. In the study, other objectives such as the moderating role of political skills and will, as well as the mediating role of the perception of organizational politics are discussed.<br> <strong>Methods. </strong>The sample size of the present research is 705 people which are employees of the Ministry of Sport and federations (of football, volleyball, handball, basketball, weight-lifting, wrestling, taekwondo, veterans and disabled). These were selected by simple random sampling and a questionnaire was used to evaluate the variables under study.<br> <strong>Results. </strong>The results did not show </span></span><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">significant</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> direct relationship between inter-organizational factors and show that </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">perception</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> of organizational politics mediated the relationship between inter-organizational factors and political behavior. The results showed that political skills and </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">will,</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> played the role of the moderator of organizational factors with political behavior.<br> <strong>Conclusion. </strong>Politics is a fact of life in the organizations. Those who are not able to observe their political behavior cannot understand the fact that </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">organization</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> is a political system. Thus, the organizations should lead to the politicization and managers should make necessary attempts towards reaching organizational goals which </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">is</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:12px;"> important.</span></span></div> Internal Organizational Factors, Political Behavior, Political Skills, Political Will, Sport Federations 95 104 http://aassjournal.com/browse.php?a_code=A-11-680-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Robab Mokhtari robab_mokhtari@yahoo.com 10031947532846007116 10031947532846007116 Yes Department of Physical Education, College of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Khalkhal, Iran Ali Mohammad Safania a.m.safania@gmail.com 10031947532846007117 10031947532846007117 No Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Hossein Poursoltan Zarandi 10031947532846007118 10031947532846007118 No Facutly of Member, Payame Noor University, Alborz, Iran