Modeling factors affecting people's participation in submitting corruption reports to the General Inspectation Organization (case study: General Inspectation of Fars Province) using a comprehensive fuzzy structural-interpretive modeling approach

The present study seeks to identify the factors affecting people's participation in submitting corruption reports to the General Inspection Organization and to model and interpret the relationships between these factors for further explanation and understanding among managers and policymakers. The study was conducted in a qualitative-quantitative manner; first, the effective factors were identified using the systematic review method, and in the next stage, the relationships between the factors were modeled and interpreted using the comprehensive fuzzy structural-interpretive modeling method. The findings in the systematic review section showed that the factors affecting people's participation in reporting corruption include 8 components. The components are: individual characteristics, moral and spiritual (value) characteristics, structural characteristics, legal characteristics, motivational characteristics, communication and informational characteristics, security characteristics, and educational and cultural characteristics. The findings in the comprehensive fuzzy structural-interpretive modeling section showed that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the factors affecting people's participation in reporting corruption, and the factors were classified into three levels; in such a way that at level one, which is the most influential level, there are motivational characteristics, moral and spiritual (value) characteristics, and educational and cultural characteristics; at level two, there are individual characteristics, communication and informational characteristics, and security characteristics; and at level three, which is the most influential level, there are structural characteristics and legal characteristics. The results showed that the existence of a precise and specific structure and rules are the basic foundations in attracting people's participation in reporting corruption. After attracting public participation, maintaining security, creating a communication and information circle, and personal characteristics will strengthen public participation. Finally, creating motivation, maintaining ethics and values, and proper education, and creating an appropriate cultural context will lead to the peak of public participation in reporting corruption.