List Some Examples of Informal Networking That Occurs in Organizations

question 14

Essay

List some examples of informal networking that occurs in organizations. How can management utilize informal networks to the organization's advantage?

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Definitions:

Acquisition

The process of learning or developing a new skill, behavior, or ability.

Contiguity

The condition of being in close association or proximity, often used in psychology to describe the closeness in time or space between two stimuli.

Conditioning

An approach to modifying behavior by teaching a subject to connect a favorable behavior with a stimulus that was initially unrelated.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual decrease and eventual elimination of a conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.