Abstract

The purpose of this study is to specify the factors relevant to administrative corruption in youth and sports ministry of Iran. This is a qualitative research and has used the heuristic method. The statistical population consists of experts in sport management and sport managers familiar with corruption, 12 people of whom were selected as the sample, using snowball sampling method, and interviews were done. To this end, the semi-structured heuristic interview was done with expert statistical samples in the field of corruption. The data analysis was done using content analysis. According to the results, relevant factors of corruption were classified into three groups of individual, organizational, and environmental dimensions. The organizational dimension contains 14 factors: structure and process, management and leadership, human resource management, job satisfaction and job design, organizational justice, information technology, transparency and responsiveness, organizational and job commitment, organizational relations, control system, organizational culture and atmosphere, finance and contracts, legal affairs, and quality of working life. The environmental dimension includes five factors: economic, social, cultural, political, and informing factors. Besides, the individual dimension includes 4 factors: psychological factors, personality, subjective, and educational factors. In addition, each factor has been analyzed partially based on the identified concepts in terms of affecting administrative corruption‎.