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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: A model of contractual project-based work: Personal social network connectivity, ICT use, and self-monitoring Abstract: "Organizations of one" are increasingly common in the modern workplace. How do individuals conduct work when they do not have access to the resources of conventional organizations? Research on the work of residential real estate agents suggests that the agents rely on their personal social networks to support their work. Research also suggests that information and communication technologies play an important role in supporting the use of social network ties in conducting work. The present research fills a gap in existing social network research by focusing on how accessing social networks affects the performance of contractual project-based workers. Residential real estate agents are studied as exemplars of contractual project-based workers. This study examines the personal social network connections of residential real estate agents in the form of ties to acquaintances or friends of friends (weak ties), and ties to coworkers with whom the agent shares mutual dependencies in the execution of work-related tasks (strong ties) These two types of ties are hypothesized as predictors of performance. Two individual characteristics were selected as predictors of individual social network use: (1) information and communication technology (ICT) use, and (2) self-monitoring. |
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