Attitudes Toward New Organizational Technology: Network Proximity as a Mechanism for Social Information Processing

Rice, Ronald E.; Aydin, Carolyn E.

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“…Cohesion denotes frequent interaction and emotional closeness and offers ample opportunities for information sharing and social comparison. Over time, direct exposure to others' opinions and behaviours influences the salience of that information, affecting an individual's own beliefs and actions (Rice and Aydin, 1991). In the workplace, this can include peers, subordinates, and superiors.…”

Section: Local Ties and Connectednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It influences work-related perceptions (Ibarra and Andrews, 1993), attitudes towards new technology (Rice and Aydin, 1991), and opinions about fellow employees (Krackhardt and Kilduff, 1990). The influence of cohesion derives from the cooperation and trust that often exist between two directly tied individuals.…”

Section: Local Ties and Connectednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Employees rely on colleagues in their network during times of perceived contract violation when trying to cope with circumstances such as radical change or organisational crises (Krackhardt, 1992). It has also been found that employees also use their networks to overcome job uncertainty (Burkhardt and Brass, 1990;Rice and Aydin, 1991). Social networks can help or hinder employer efforts to promote psychological contracts that are mutually beneficial to both employees and the employer.…”

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Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Heffernan

Rochford

2017

The Irish Journal of Management

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The aim of this study is to examine whether social networks reduce the effects of psychological contract breach on an employee’s intention to leave the organisation. This paper focusses on two particular elements of the social network in an organisation: (1) social status and (2) local ties/connectedness. Using a sample of 242 responses from officers in the Irish Defence Forces, the results provide empirical evidence of the impact of psychological contract breach on officer turnover intentions. The results also demonstrate that perceptions of social networks moderate the relationship between psychological contract breach and turnover intentions through social status. Contrary to expectations, strong connectedness with senior officers was also found to be a moderator but not in the direction that was hypothesised. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.

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Section: Local Ties and Connectednessmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Heffernan

Rochford

2017

The Irish Journal of Management

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“…The process of social influence especially affects newcomers into an organization (Rice & Aydin, 1991;Schein, 2003;Bauer, Bodner, Erdongan, Truxillo & Tucker, 2007). Unsure of their role and apprehensive about their status, newcomers aim to build a situational definition (Schein, 2003).…”

Section: Effects Of Latitude Of Acceptance Of Newcomersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opinion transmission in organizations: an agent-based modeling approach

Rouchier

Tubaro²,

Emery³

2013

Comput Math Organ Theory

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This paper builds a theoretical framework to detect the conditions under which social influence enables persistence of a shared opinion among members of an organization over time, despite membership turnover. It develops agent-based simulations of opinion evolution in an advice network, whereby opinion is defined in the broad sense of shared understandings on a matter that is relevant for an organization's activities, and on which members have some degree of discretion. We combine a micro-level model of social influence that builds on the "relative agreement" approach of Deffuant et al. (2002), and a macro-level structure of interactions that includes a flow of joiners and leavers and allows for criteria of advice tie formation derived from, and grounded in, the empirical literature on intra-organizational networks.We provide computational evidence that persistence of opinions over time is possible in an organization with joiners and leavers, a result that depends on circumstances defined by mode of network tie formation (in particular, criteria for selection of advisors), individual attributes of agents (openness of newcomers to influence, as part of their socialization process), and time-related factors (turnover rate, which regulates the flow of entry and exit in the organization, and establishes a form of endogenous hierarchy based on length of stay). We explore the combined effects of these factors and discuss their implications.

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“…the level of fulfilment experienced by those members of an organization who actually use the information at the end of the entire information seeking process. Papers have been published on specific aspects of information seeking such as "Uncertainty" (Ingression, 1996;Kuhlthau, 1993) "Serendipity" (Rice et. al., 1991;Foster, 2003) and "Browsing" (Levine, 1969).…”

Section: Review Of Information Fulfilment In Established Information mentioning

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Cultural issues, organizational hierarchy and information fulfilment

Burke

2007

Library Review

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Article Type: Conceptual paper Purpose of this paper: This paper presents the cultural results of a three year study into the concept of information fulfilment and considers the impact of culture on levels of information fulfilment.Design/Methodology/Approach: Ethnographic studies were undertaken within higher education institutions in four countries, by examining each organisation's shape and comparing it with the level of achievement of information fulfilment. The social and symbolic meanings that underpinned the culture of information in the chosen institutions are presented. The cultural frameworks are analysed and followed by a section of " raw data" from the ethnographic field. Findings:Culture impacted significantly in all the studies, and each study had its own unique character which provided rich insights into the culture, atmosphere and contexts of the fields. Research Limitations/Implications:Practical Implications:Original value of Paper: The relationships between the cultures and the levels of information fulfilment are reported with a view to helping build Knowledge Management systems that deliver higher levels of information fulfilment.

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Attitudes Toward New Organizational Technology: Network Proximity as a Mechanism for Social Information Processing

Cited by 493 publications

References 30 publications

Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Psychological contract breach and turnover intention: the moderating effects of social status and local ties

Opinion transmission in organizations: an agent-based modeling approach

Cultural issues, organizational hierarchy and information fulfilment

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