Travis J. Grosser

University of Connecticut | UConn · Department of Management

Within organizational settings, communication dynamics are influenced by various factors, such as email content, historical interactions, and interpersonal relationships. We introduce the Email MultiModal Architecture (EMMA) to model these dynamics and predict future communication behavior. EMMA uses data related to an email sender’s social network...

This study shows how network analyses, specifically whole network analysis, can be used to elicit network structures and identify subgroups in academic journal publishing in the field of public administration. To elicit the citation networks of the journals, we used social network analysis methods on the journal citations in the InCites Journal Cit...

Although affect is a factor likely to impact the success of innovation, little research has been done on the relationship between affect and innovation implementation performance (i.e., an employee’s ability to successfully implement innovative ideas and practices). We address this oversight by adopting a social network approach to examine relation...

Best Paper Proceedings, Organizational Behavior Division.

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the important role employee inclusion perceptions play in promoting positive employee attitudes and behaviors. Although social networks are frequently cited as being a driver of perceived inclusion, little empirical work has examined the social network conditions that give rise to it. We address this gap b...

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the important role employee inclusion perceptions play in promoting positive employee attitudes and behaviors. Although social networks are frequently cited as being a driver of perceived inclusion, little empirical work has examined the social network conditions that give rise to it. We address this gap b...

This study explores how the motivational framing of a network training program may positively or (inadvertently) adversely impact participants' discomfort with strategic networking and motivation to network. We examine the impact of a “me‐focused” framing (i.e., on the personal career benefits that individuals can accrue through strategic networkin...

This study demonstrates how social network analysis, specifically ego-network analysis, can be used as a methodology to investigate the degrees of the isolation, insularity, and prestige of academic journals in a particular field in relation to other fields. Using the example of journals in public administration for illustrative purposes, we analyz...

Although mounting research has focused on the antecedents to accurate idea evaluation—an important step in the creative process—little attention has been given to the biases that may occur when individuals evaluate their own creativity. This study examines biased creative self-evaluation via the antecedents to creative self-enhancement, defined as...

The upheaval created by a merger can precipitate voluntary employee turnover, causing merging organizations to lose valuable knowledge-based resources and competencies precisely when they are needed most to achieve the merger's integration goals. While prior research has shown that employees' connections to coworkers reduce their likelihood of leav...

Previous research has highlighted how interpersonal-and task-based conflicts can impact work team effectiveness. The majority of such work, however, has implicitly treated both types of conflict as shared team properties. Yet each team member may perceive or experience varying degrees of conflict with other team members, which suggests that individ...

As social network theory and methodology advance, scholars in multiple fields have increasingly become interested in examining work teams using network perspectives. Social networks not only enabled work team researchers to theorize about interdependencies and the dynamic interplay of team components (i.e., individuals, dyads, and whole teams) but...

Brokerage has assumed an increasingly important role in social network research and organizing more generally. Social network research has traditionally defined brokerage in structural terms as a broker who stands between two disconnected parties. Alongside this structural definition, network research has generally made assumptions about, but rarel...

We adopt a sociopolitical perspective to examine how an employee's political skill works in conjunction with social network structure to relate to the employee's innovation involvement and job performance. We find that employee innovation involvement mediates the relationship between political skill and job performance and that the number of struct...

While most social network studies of employee innovation behavior examine the focal employees’ (“egos’”) network structure, we employ an alter-centric perspective to study the personal characteristics of employees’ network contacts—their “alters”—to better understand employee innovation. Specifically, we examine how the creative self-efficacy (CSE)...

The authors used pre-post merger data from 599 employees experiencing a major corporate merger to compare 3 conceptual models based on the logic of social identity theory (SIT) and exchange theory to explain employees’ merger responses. At issue is how perceived change in employees’ own jobs and roles (i.e., personal valence) and perceived change i...

In social network analysis, two nodes are considered structurally equivalent if they have the same neighborhoods – that is, they are connected to the same others. Initially introduced as a convenience for creating reduced models of networks, it was soon seen as a way to formalize the concept of relational role or position. To the extent that charac...

New work in social network theory and research has begun to explore the role of social network process alongside social network structure. Where a first wave of social network research located social network process as implicit in social network structure, new work has argued for a more sophisticated capture of the social network action within soci...

In the contemporary business world, creative ideas are more often the product of social interaction and influence than long periods of thinking in isolation. To this end, researchers and management practitioners have been interested in examining the role played by social networks in driving creativity and innovation. Previous findings illustrate th...

I examine how political skill affects employee career success as well as an employee’s ability to successfully initiate innovation within an organization. Integrating a sociopolitical view on innovation with the interactionist perspective on creativity and innovation, I find that employee political skill is positively related to both successful inn...

We develop a multistage self-regulatory perspective on job search effort assuming active job seekers conducting job searches within a job search goal life span. Specifically, we propose that time pressure increases as the goal of finding employment becomes more proximal, while job search uncertainty decreases. Based on these premises, we integrate...

We examine how employees' centrality in the networks of positively valenced ties (e.g., friendship, advice) and negatively valenced ties (e.g., avoidance) at work interact to affect these employees' organizational attachment. Using 2 different samples (154 employees in a division of a food and animal science organization and 144 employees in a prod...

A brief overview of social network theory & social network analysis methodology and their applications in the field of anthropology.

We expand the self-regulatory approach to job search by developing a multi-stage theoretical perspective on cyclical job search effort. This perspective integrates job search research streams, including individual differences, social networks, and dynamic self-regulation of effort based on progress feedback across a six-month job search cycle compr...

The authors use social network analysis to understand how employees’ propensity to engage in positive and negative gossip is driven by their underlying relationship ties.They find that expressive friendship ties between employees are positively related to engaging in both positive and negative gossip, whereas instrumental workflow ties, which are l...

We examine the phenomenon of interpersonal workplace exclusion (IWE) using both a sociometric and a psychometric approach. In our definition, IWE occurs when an employee is ignored, excluded by or intentionally kept apart from other individuals or groups of individuals in the workplace and/ or at work-related events. We find that being the target o...