The Social Capital Imperative : Revealing, Developing, and Leveraging Organizational Networks

Social capital--the resources and goodwill of network contacts--can be activated to enhance employees' performance, leadership effectiveness, careers, and overall organizational functioning.Despite years of research highlighting networks' role in addressing business challenges, organizational solutions still overwhelmingly focus on enhancing individual knowledge and skills or changing formal organizational structures and processes.Shifts in the business environment make adding a social capital lens to the historical human capital lens no longer just 'nice to do' but an imperative.Employees and organizations will benefit from carefully considering network connections and intentional efforts to foster their development and use.By prioritizing intentional connections, organizations can create a virtuous cycle of opportunities and prevent a vicious cycle of overwhelm.This book guides practitioners in revealing novel insights using network analysis and creating impact by developing and leve