Social networks and the performance of individuals and groups

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sparrowe, RT; Liden, RC; Wayne, SJ; Kraimer, ML
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069458
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 316-325
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP; satisfaction; centrality; COMMITMENT; POWER

摘要

A field study involving 190 employees in 38 work groups representing five diverse organizations provided evidence that social networks, as defined in terms of both positive and negative relations, are related to both individual and group performance. As hypothesized, individual job performance was positively related to centrality in advice networks and negatively related to centrality in hindrance networks composed of relationships tending to thwart task behaviors. Hindrance network density was significantly and negatively related to group performance.