On the social networks of managers

Abstract

Using data from the National Opinion Research Center's General SocialSurvey, we compared the organizational membership networks andcore discussion networks of managers and nonmanagers. For the twogroups, the networks differed on a variety of characteristics, includingties to outside organizations and to co-workers, network size, and closeness of ties. We also found preliminary evidence that network differences were associated with income differences for nonmanagers.