Abstract Book of the 8th World Conference on Social Sciences
Year: 2025
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Self-monitoring and intra-organizational social networks.A case study: friendship and support social networks in an NGO
Valentina-Georgiana Dumitrache
ABSTRACT:
The present research aimed to analyze personal friendship and help networks in the human resources department of a non-governmental organization. Central to defining and explaining certain trends was the level of self-monitoring, a variable introduced by Snyder (1974) and studied in parallel with cognitive social networks. The main objective was to establish a possible association with variables of interest, such as: accuracy in identifying relationships, network centrality, physical proximity, but also dependency and exchange relationships. The statistical and network analysis of these characteristics led to a series of conclusions. Volunteers with a high level of self-monitoring have, on average, a high degree of accuracy in identifying relationships, hold central positions in the two networks (of influence, connection), have many relationships and control dependency relationships, being those who avoid asking for help, but offer it to many people. Last but not least, those who live on the organization’s campus are considered close friends and are asked for help by more people than those in other areas of the city, so physical proximity favors the emergence of relationships and positions of popularity.
Keywords: centrality, friendship, influence, help, social network