Title :
Email network analysis for leadership
Author :
Tashiro, Hisato ; Lau, Antonio ; Mori, Junichi ; Fujii, Nobuzumi ; Kajikawa, Yuya
Author_Institution :
Innovation Policy Res. Center, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Seventy two middle managers´ performance evaluation of a case global TQM manufacturer were statistically compared with the email network centralities. Betweenness and In-degree network centralities of the middle managers are correlated with their leadership performance, and, on the other hand, PageRank is a negative indicator of leadership. Genuine leaders are trusted in their communities as a hub of information channel of the communication network.
Keywords :
electronic mail; human resource management; organisational aspects; total quality management; PageRank; TQM manufacturer; betweenness; email network analysis; genuine leaders; in-degree network centralities; information channel hub; leadership performance; middle manager performance evaluation; Communities; Companies; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Lead; Mathematical model; email network analysis; leadership; partial least squares (PLS) regression;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0740-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-3611
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2011.6118158
