TY - JOUR T1 - The Role of Job Stress and Personality Traits in Moderating the Relationship Between the Political Skills of Managers and the Deviant Behaviors in the Municipalities of Mazandaran Province AU - Salajeghe, Sanjar AU - Enshaei, Hamed JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 27 SP - 6563 EP - 6571 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.6563.6571 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6563.6571 KW - Political skills KW -deviant behavior KW -job stress KW -personality traits KW -political skills AB - The aim of this study is to investigate the role of job stress and personality traits in moderating the relationship between the political skills of managers and the deviant behaviors in the municipalities of Mazandaran Province. This study is a descriptive correlational study. Its population includes 212 managers who work in the municipalities of Mazandaran Province. Based on Morgan table, 132 persons were selected as sample. To investigate the hypotheses and research questions, Partial Least Squares approach was used. SPSS V.19 software and Smart PLS2 Software were used to analyze the data. The results show that there is a relationship between the political skills and deviant behaviors. They also show that personality traits moderate the relationship between political skills and deviant behaviors but the job stress doesn’t moderate this relationship. So, it is suggested to increase the possibility of the understanding the manager’s political skills in the organization because it reduces the incidence of deviant behaviors. ER -