SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS.
通过对五个组织中38个工作组的190名员工进行实地研究，发现社会网络（包括积极和消极关系）与个人及群体绩效相关。个人绩效与咨询网络中心性正相关，与阻碍网络中心性负相关；阻碍网络密度与群体绩效显著负相关。
A field study involving 190 employees in 38 work groups representing five diverse organizations provided evidence that social networks, as defined in terms of both positive and negative relations, are related to both individual and group performance. As hypothesized, individual job performance was positively related to centrality in advice networks and negatively related to centrality in hindrance networks composed of relationships tending to thwart task behaviors. Hindrance network density was significantly and negatively related to group performance.