Identifying Potential Managerial Personnel Using PageRank and Social Network Analysis: The Case Study of a European IT Company

Behavioral theory assumes that leaders can be identified by their daily behaviors. Social network analysis helps to understand behavioral patterns within their social networks. This work considers leaders as the managerial personnel of the organization and differentiates managements from non-manager...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2021-08, Vol.11 (15), p.6985
Main Authors: Chan, Jan Y. K., Wang, Zhihao, Xie, Yunbo, Meisel, Carlos A., Meisel, Jose D., Solano, Paula, Murillo, Heidy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
e-HRM
Employees
graph convolutional network
Graph neural networks
Leadership
Learning algorithms
Machine learning
Network analysis
Neural networks
Organizations
PageRank
performance appraisal
Social behavior
Social network analysis
Social networks
Social organization
Sustainability management
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Summary:Behavioral theory assumes that leaders can be identified by their daily behaviors. Social network analysis helps to understand behavioral patterns within their social networks. This work considers leaders as the managerial personnel of the organization and differentiates managements from non-managerial staff by their behavior with five different types of interactions with PageRank and their attributes in modern organizations. PageRank and word embedding using word2vec with phrases from features are adopted to extract new features for the identification of managerial staff. Both traditional machine learning methods and graph neural networks are utilized with real-world data from an Austrian IT company called Knapp System Integration. Our experimental results show that the proposed new features extracted using PageRank with different types of interactions and word2vec with phrases significantly improve the identification accuracy. We also propose to use graph neural networks as an effective learning algorithm to identify managers from organizations. Our approach can identify managerial staff with an accuracy of around 80%, which demonstrates that managers could be identified through social network analysis. By analyzing the behaviors of members, the proposed method is effective as a performance appraisal tool for organizations. The study facilitates sustainable management by helping organizations to retain managerial talents or to invite potential talents to join the management team.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app11156985