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Personality and social networks in organizations: A review and future directions
Author(s) -
Landis Blaine
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.2004
Subject(s) - centrality , personality , structural holes , psychology , affect (linguistics) , social network (sociolinguistics) , position (finance) , key (lock) , social psychology , sociology , political science , social capital , business , social science , computer science , mathematics , communication , finance , combinatorics , law , social media , computer security
Summary Recent research linking individuals' personality characteristics to their social networks has brought a new understanding of how individual patterns of behavior affect networks in organizations. This review summarizes the major advancements in the three areas of social network research relevant to organizational behavior: (a) brokerage and structural holes; (b) network centrality and network size; and (c) strength of ties. This review also provides an agenda outlining three key opportunities for future research. These opportunities involve personality and social network change, bidirectional and dyadic processes, and the potential effect of network position on personality expression. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.