Threat, Opportunity, and Network Interaction in Organizations
Threat, Opportunity, and Network Interaction in Organizations
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组织中的威胁、机遇和网络交互
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2015
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S. Srivastava
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S. Srivastava
本文探讨了威胁或机会的不确定情况如何影响人们与组织中同事互动的选择。威胁/机会透镜包含两个概念上不同的维度，增益/损失和控制/有限控制，假设它们会产生不同的网络交互模式。两项实验研究（一项涉及医疗保健组织的 158 名领导者，另一项涉及一系列小型机构的 129 名员工）为拟议的概念化提供了支持。研究发现，（1）人们在损失的情况下选择与更多的网络联系人互动，而不是在获得的情况下；（2）那些拥有内部控制源的人在有限控制的情况下选择与更多的网络联系人互动，而那些拥有外部控制源的人则表现出相反的反应；（3）相对于高级别的参与者，低级别的参与者在损失的情况下与更多的网络联系人互动的倾向比获得的情况更大。这些发现有助于我们理解个人认知和组织社交网络之间的相互作用。
This article examines how uncertain situations of threat or opportunity influence people’s choices to interact with their colleagues in an organization. The threat/opportunity lens encompasses two conceptually distinct dimensions, gain/loss and control/limited control, which are hypothesized to produce different patterns of network interaction. Two experimental studies—one involving 158 leaders in a health-care organization and the other involving 129 employees in a range of smaller establishments—provided support for the proposed conceptualization. The studies found that (1) people chose to interact with more network contacts in situations of loss than in situations of gain, (2) those with an internal locus of control chose to interact with more network contacts in situations of limited control than in situations of control, whereas those with an external locus of control exhibited the opposite response, and (3) the tendency to interact with more network contacts in loss rather than gain was greater for low-ranking actors relative to high-ranking ones. These findings contribute to our understanding of the interplay between individual cognition and organizational social networks.