Quantifying and Qualifying the Links that Bind
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Employees’ links to organizations and coworkers represent an important factor related to many work-related constructs in the Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology literature. Often, I-O researchers conceptualize these employee links through either the number of workplace links or an employee’s perceived social support. However, these conceptualizations are potentially limited. Research into Social Network Analysis has investigated different quality dimensions in links (e.g., link strength and valence) which can significantly influence outcomes in social, workplace, and general well-being. Thus, the present proposed thesis project seeks to explore whether incorporating these quality dimensions of link strength and link valence adds any incremental utility to our understanding of workplace constructs.
Date
October 2017
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Quantifying and Qualifying the Links that Bind
Employees’ links to organizations and coworkers represent an important factor related to many work-related constructs in the Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology literature. Often, I-O researchers conceptualize these employee links through either the number of workplace links or an employee’s perceived social support. However, these conceptualizations are potentially limited. Research into Social Network Analysis has investigated different quality dimensions in links (e.g., link strength and valence) which can significantly influence outcomes in social, workplace, and general well-being. Thus, the present proposed thesis project seeks to explore whether incorporating these quality dimensions of link strength and link valence adds any incremental utility to our understanding of workplace constructs.
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology