Interpersonal Networks in Organizations
Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture

Analyzes organisational behaviour from a social networks perspective.

Martin Kilduff (Author), David Krackhardt (Author)

9780521685580, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 September 2008

320 pages, 48 tables
22.7 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.43 kg

This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach.

1. Introduction
Part I. Perceiving Networks: 2. A network approach to leadership
3. An analysis of the internal market for reputation
4. Systematic biases in network perception
5. Effects of network accuracy on individuals' perceived power
Part II. The Psychology of Network Differences: 6. Social structure and decision-making in an MBA cohort
7. The social networks of low and high self-monitors
8. Centrality in the emotion helping network: an interactionist approach
Part III. Network Dynamics and Organizational Culture: 9. Network perceptions and turnover in three organizations
10. Organizational crises
11. The control of organizational diversity
12. Future directions.

Subject Areas: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU]