Work, employment, occupations, careers, professions.

Job finding. Job satisfaction. Careers.

Professional linkages.

Strength of Weak Ties.

You Are Who You Know.

Friedkin, N.E. 1983. Horizons of Observability and Limits of Informal Control in Organizations.

Granovetter, Mark. Getting a Job.

Networks of Competitive Advantage

Retrainers as Labor Market Brokers

Constructing Networks and Narratives in the Detroit Area

Household Strategies to Coordinate Home and Work

Friends in Low Places: Gender, Unemployment and Sociability

Kathy Snyder, of Forward Mobility, Inc., says: “The goal of our company is to ensure that every employee that is uprooted, has the tools necessary to re-root in a new environment. Most corporations do not believe or understand the psychosocial problems that are caused by a loss of social network due to geographic relocation. In my research, I have found tons of studies that

point to the negative impact of relocation due to the loss of social networks. Now I need to find research that states that support systems like our company help employees to re-establish social networks more quickly, resulting in a more settled and productive employee for the company.

Murice Levesque says: I am working on a research which addresses personal networks of two groups of social assistance recipients in Quebec, Canada. Subjects of both groups have a long stay in the system of assistance (over two years). However they differ in the sense that subjects of the first group are actually social assistance recipients whereas the subjects of the second

group have left the system of assistance. The research hypothesis, partially based on the work of Granovetter, is that the personal network of the second group will differ from the one of

the first group and, that the resources (of different types) available thru the network of the second group have played a significant role to help the subjects leave the system of social assistance.

Ottawa, May 2, 2001 – Good relationships in the workplace mean even more to job

satisfaction than pay or benefits. They are, in fact, the key ingredient of a

“good job”.

This is a central finding in What's a Good Job? The Importance of Employment

Relationships, co-authored by CPRN Work Network Director, Graham Lowe, and

Senior Researcher, Grant Schellenberg.