Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2022-12-09
Abstract：
Networking behavior refers to employees’ behaviors that build, maintain, and use relationships to achieve work-related goals. Different from traditional social network research that focuses primarily on the decisive influence of network structure, research on networking behavior emphasizes the role of individual agency and indicates that employees can realize their career success by proactively engaging in networking behavior. Based on an overview of the previous research, the concept of employee networking behavior and its characteristics is firstly summarized. Second, perspectives including resource, affect, network, and exchange are adopted to summarize the effects and underlying mechanisms of employee networking behavior. Third, a number of potential directions for future research are discussed, including deepening and integrating different theoretical perspectives, examining online networking behavior under the context of enterprise social media platforms, updating the measurement of networking behavior and extending research methods. In so doing, we intend to advance the knowledge of both the nature and influence of networking behavior.
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