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Social identity, status characteristics and social networks: Predictors of advice seeking in a manufacturing facility
Author(s) -
Copeland Martin P.,
Reynolds Katherine J.,
Burton Jamie B.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2007.00245.x
Subject(s) - social psychology , psychology , social identity theory , interpersonal communication , identity (music) , advice (programming) , perception , identification (biology) , group identification , collective identity , social group , political science , physics , botany , neuroscience , politics , computer science , acoustics , law , biology , programming language
In the sociological tradition, status characteristics and patterns of interpersonal relations within a social network are considered important in explaining organizational behaviour (e.g. influence, cooperation). In the social identity tradition, perceptions of shared psychological group membership and group prototypicality are considered important in explaining many of the same organizational behaviours. The present paper explores core variables within each of these perspectives as predictors of advice seeking among supervisors in a manufacturing facility. Dyadic measures of group assignment are found to better predict advice seeking than measures taken at the individual level. Identification with work groups predicted advice seeking from those perceived to be in the same group, and also from structural equivalents. Implications for theory and further research are discussed.