1. Social network analysis and the evaluation of leadership networks
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Claire Reinelt and Bruce Hoppe
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Value (ethics) ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Knowledge management ,Sociology and Political Science ,Social network ,Leadership development ,business.industry ,Management science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Organizational network analysis ,Shared leadership ,Leadership ,Business and International Management ,business ,Social network analysis ,Applied Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Leadership development practitioners are increasingly interested in social networks as a way to strengthen relationships among leaders in fields, communities, and organizations. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing different types of leadership networks and uses case examples to identify outcomes typically associated with each type of network. Evaluating leadership networks is a challenge for the field of leadership development. Social network analysis (SNA) is an evaluation approach that uses mathematics and visualization to represent the structure of relationships between people, organizations, goals, interests, and other entities within a larger system. In this article we describe core social network concepts and the application of them to illuminate the value of SNA as an evaluation tool.
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- 2010
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