POWER, SOCIAL-INFLUENCE, AND SENSE MAKING - EFFECTS OF NETWORK CENTRALITY AND PROXIMITY ON EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: IBARRA, H; ANDREWS, SB
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2307/2393414
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 277-303
• 关键词: INTRAORGANIZATIONAL POWER; ORGANIZATIONAL-STRUCTURE; COMMUNICATION-NETWORKS; TASK DESIGN; attitudes; contagion; models

摘要

This paper explores the hypothesis that network interaction patterns affect employee perceptions through two conceptually and empirically distinguishable mechanisms: localized social influence based on network proximity and systemic power based on network centrality. The study explores the relative contributions of individual attributes, formal organizational positions, network centrality, and network proximity in explaining individual variation in perceptions of work-related conditions in an advertising firm. Results suggest that network factors shape job-related perceptions, over and above the effects of individual attributes and formal positions. Both advice network centrality and friendship network proximity evidenced significant effects, although they were stronger for centrality than for proximity.