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Sources of social capital: Effects of altruistic citizenship behavior and job involvement on advice network centrality
Author(s) -
Zhang Mian,
Zheng Wei,
Wei Jun
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.20015
Subject(s) - centrality , social capital , advice (programming) , psychology , social psychology , altruism (biology) , capital (architecture) , social network (sociolinguistics) , organizational citizenship behavior , citizenship , public relations , sociology , political science , organizational commitment , social media , combinatorics , computer science , programming language , social science , mathematics , archaeology , law , history , politics
Abstract Social capital has been receiving increasing attention in HRD research. However, the sources of social capital have received inadequate attention. Little has been done to reveal how people obtain their social capital in the workplace. This study investigated the effects of employees' altruistic citizenship behavior and job involvement on their advice network centrality. Advice network centrality was used as an indicator of social capital. The results suggest that altruistic citizenship behavior and job involvement are positively associated with employees' advice network centrality. Furthermore, our findings suggest that job involvement moderates the effect of altruistic citizenship behavior on advice network centrality. Theoretical and practical implications for HRD are discussed and future directions are drawn.