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Employee Social Network Analysis(ESNA):
   
   
   
               

Employee social Network Analysis(ESNA) examines the structure of social relationships among Employees with in the Organization. AReas where an Organization would benefit from Employee Social Network Analysis would be;

  • Organization Development
  • People Management using
ESNA has become an important tool for organizations to understand the connection between patterns of interactions among its employees and business outcomes such as
 
 
  • Flow of Communication
  • Sphere of Influence across different groups
  • Identifying Future Leaders / Managers
  • Team Dynamics
  • Likelihood of information getting shared & creation of new ideas
  • Adoption of new ideas or technologies
  • Inter-personal Communication
  • Inter-Divisional(Group) Communication
  • Political / Power Centres
  • Impact of Negativity
       
Takeaways:

This could further help Organizations in

1. Managing its Employees and particularly address Challenges in Retention and attrition, two of the biggest problems.

2. Better Team efforts and Group efforts in meeting Team Goals and Desired Objectives

3. Change Management

4. Adapting to new (and challenging) Environments (Financial Meltdown such as the current situation)

5. Identifying and using informal Mouthpiece for Organizations Agenda

6. Most effective in managing Small Entrepreneurial Organizations to Large Globally (Geographically) dispersed Organizations.

ESNA also assumes that people are all interdependent. The focus on interdependence means that ESNA can ask and answer questions such as:

  • Is sales team effectively communicating with marketing team to share and coordinate information about the customer?
  • When two companies or organizations merge, how can management use the informal network to spread important message?
  • In R& D group, are there enough people bringing ideas from outside and are these ideas being acted upon?
  • IF, Ram is quitting and what is the likelihood of other Team members and his peers or juniors quitting, soon after?
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