The Virtual Mirror - Reflecting on Social and Psychological Self to Increase Organizational Creativity

Gloor, Peter A.; Oster, Daniel; Raz, Ornit; Pentland, Alex; Schoder, Detlef

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“…Evaluating the results and mapping them with the structure of the informal network confirmed the following five hypotheses (Gloor et al 2009): (1) Extraversion correlates positively with active participation in personal interaction (r=0.52; p<0.05). (2) There is a negative correlation between neuroticism and the intensity of personal interaction (r=-0.75, p<0.01).…”

Section: Network Position and Personalitymentioning

confidence: 66%

“…For a number of years, it has demonstrated its usefulness in a business context (Borgatti and Foster 2003;Cross and Parker 2004;Cross et al 2002;Müller and Gronau 2007). Work on this topic focused on the effect of network structures on the performance of the individual (e. g. Ahuja et al 2003;Bulkley and Van Alstyne 2006;Cross and Cummings 2004;Gloor et al 2008;Mehra et al 2001;Moran 2005;Sparrowe et al 2001), groups (Balkundi and Harrison 2006;Brass 1981;Mayo and Pastor 2005;Reagans and Zuckerman 2001;Sparrowe et al 2001) and organizations (Ahuja 2000;Podolny and Baron 1997;Powell et al 1996;Raz and Gloor 2007;Uzzi 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study

Fischbach

Gloor

Schoder

2008

Bus. Inf. Syst. Eng.

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It is becoming more and more important for knowledge workers to increase their productivity. However, there is a general lack of (semi-)automated, IT-supported data collection and evaluation approaches that allow insights into the processes and structures of an enterprise's internal networks and the activities of its knowledge workers. The article presents a prototype of an IT-supported instrument ("Social Badges") that supports automatic collection of informal, personal interaction between (knowledge) workers within an enterprise. The authors' aim is to introduce a novel approach which improves data quality over legacy methods. The approach uses Social Network Analysis (SNA) to make it easier for executives to analyze and manage informal communications networks. Its practical applicability is demonstrated by a case study. IntroductionIf the formal organization is the skeleton of a company, the informal is the central nervous system driving the collective thought processes, actions, and reactions of its business units.( Krackhardt and Hanson 1993, p. 104) Both the volume and importance of knowledge workers are growing as industrialized countries go through structural changes towards service-oriented societies (Albach 1999;Drucker 1999;Davenport 2005). According to Apte and Nath (2007), knowledge workers already account for 70 % of the labor force in the USA and for more than 60 % of its added value. Despite the importance of knowledgeintensive work, little is known about how to improve it compared to manual work processes. This is because the work performed by knowledge workers is complex and hard to measure (Aral et al. 2006; Mangelsdorf 2008; Ramírez and Nembhard 2004). It can be assumed that the way information is exchanged and distributed will have an influence on the relative productivity of groups and actors (Aral et al. 2006;Cross et al. 2003). The modern enterprise's productivity, efficiency and the ability to innovate thus all require an efficient structure and culture with respect to the exchange of knowledge between employees ( Knowledge is mainly exchange via informal, social communication networks whose structures often differ greatly from the enterprise's organizational structure and workflows (Krackhardt and Hanson 1993). At the same time, these structures have a decisive influence on the ability of employees, workgroups and the whole enterprise to deliver superior performance as they determine how quickly information can be propagated across a network, or whether stake holding employees will be able to contact each other (Cross and Parker 2004). In this context Cross et al. (2003, p. 8) emphasize that "one of the most consistent findings in the social science literature is that whom you know often has a great deal to do with what you come to know".Within this context the management of informal communication networks between enterprise staff becomes strategically significant (Davenport and Prusak 1998;Cross et al. 2003;Berglind and Scales 1987). Knowledge management focuses on those parts o...

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Section: Network Position and Personalitymentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: State Of the Art Of Research And The Approachmentioning

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Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study

Fischbach

Gloor

Schoder

2008

Bus. Inf. Syst. Eng.

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“…based on relations and exchanges characterizing the network as a whole). Studies that have applied SNA to creativity research have mainly focused on the relationship between group performance and indices such as centrality and density [49]. For example, Cattani and Ferriani [47] applied SNA to investigate the network of collaborations within the Hollywood motion picture industry over the period 1992-2003.…”

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Networked Flow: A Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration in Educational and Training Settings

Gaggioli¹

2011

TOEDUJ

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Supporting creative collaboration in the classroom is considered an important objective by current education research, as growing evidence suggests that this practice is linked with the quality of learning and the development of problem solving skills. Drawing on recent advances in group creativity research, social cognition and network science, we propose a theoretical framework for studying creative collaboration that integrates the concepts of group flow and social presence. Our key hypothesis is that in order for a group to enter the creative state of flow, members must be able to develop a "we-intention", in which the actions of the individuals and those of the collective are merged (social presence). According to our model, this is a staged process, beginning with the co-construction of a shared frame within the group and culminating with the creation of a novel artefact or concept. A further assumption is that the emergence of such optimal group state is associated with structural changes in the dynamics of group interaction, which can be effectively investigated using social network analysis techniques.

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“…Neal found curve effect on the centrality of children's social network of their aggressive behaviors. The organization creativity studied by Gloor [7] found a positive correlation between high creativity of employees and changes of their centrality. Then, Zhou, Shin, Brass and Choi [10] found a curvilinear relationship between the creativity of employees and their weak ties.…”

Section: ) Psychological Variables Effected By Social Network and Somentioning

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“…Kalish [6] found a positive correlation among extroversion, density and size of network, but the nervousness is the opposite. In the research of organization creativity, Gloor, Oster, Raz, Pentland and Schoder [7] compared with neuroticism and introversion of the individual, and found that the extroverted person has more probability located in the edge of their social network.…”

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Psychological Variables in Researches between Social Network and Social Capital

Qu¹,

Shao²,

Ni³

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education

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Abstract-Social network and social capital are critical issues in sociology. There is a rising research tendency on the relationship among psychological variables in social network and social capital. Four common hypotheses were summarized based on comprehensive syntheses, and they were main effect hypothesis, mediator and moderator hypothesis, dynamic effect hypothesis, and synergistic effect hypothesis. Meanwhile, the methodology, definition and assessment should be considered, which induce new thoughts for future studies. Keywords-social network; social capital; psychological variables I. SOCIAL NETWORK, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLESThe definition of social capital was formally proposed by the French sociologist Bourdieu in 1980, and then Coleman, Putnam, Portes and his colleagues redefined this concept and conducted a series of researches. Nan Lin [1] thought social capital as resources embedded in social networks which are rooted in social networks and social relations, therefore the social capital can be defined as the resources embedded in a social structure that can be obtained by purposeful actions. Yanjie Bian [2] pointed out that the forms of social capital was the network of relationships in social actors, and the essences was the resources which could be contained in the network and be transformed among social actors. None social actors can unilaterally have such resources, and it must be obtained by the development, accumulation and application of such resources in the network.At present, in researches on social network and social capital, empirical and quantitative studies gradually become the mainstream, in which the study of that focused on the social status attainment, social support, social stratification and occupational mobility. As continuous expansion of the study of social network and social capital in the social science, the influence were no longer limited to the academic sociology, which became a theme highly researched by scholars from different disciplines, such as psychology. The relationship study among social network, social capital and psychological variables show its vitality at its beginning.Sociology and psychology concern "punctate" (individual) and "linear" (the relationship between individuals) from different perspectives. Sociological researchers were interested in social network and social capital embedded in networks, but psychologists were oppositely concerned about the psychology impacts of social networks on individuals and groups, rather than social network itself. Sociology and psychology to treat persons and their relationships in society is seemingly disparate, but complementary. On the one hand, psychological status of individuals and groups were affected by the characteristics of their social networks; on the other hand, psychological factors of each individual and group had an impact on the formation and development as well as the final characteristics of social networks.The studies on relationships among social network, social capital and psycholo...

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The Virtual Mirror - Reflecting on Social and Psychological Self to Increase Organizational Creativity

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study

Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study

Networked Flow: A Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration in Educational and Training Settings

Psychological Variables in Researches between Social Network and Social Capital

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