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September 4, 2003
Social Network Analysis in Corporate Settings
Posted by Seb Paquet
Martin Roulleaux Dugage anticipates employees' concerns about using
social network analysis in a corporation. He writes,
Employees will necessarily feel uneasy, to say the least, about answering questions about who is knowledgeable about this, and who is meeting with whom. Why would the management want to analyze the social fabric of the company anyway ? Whose business is that ? Is that another trick for downsizing ? etc. I challenge the willingness of employees to participate in systems which coud be used to minimize the impact of their own eventual layoff!
It seems to me that some employees may actually feel easy about becoming "internal reporters" while others may not. Just as politicians want to know when journalists are around, the latter will surely want to know who the former are. Is the first group going to be mandated to wear
shirts like these?
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