Why connect? Moral consequences of networking with a promotion or prevention focus.

Networks are a key source of social capital for achieving goals in professional and personal settings. Yet, despite the clear benefits of having an extensive network, individuals often shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because engaging in instrumental networking can make them feel morally impure. In this article, we explore how the motives people have when engaging in networking impact these feelings and, as result, change how frequently they engage in networking and their job performance.

The network secrets of great change agents.

Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their workplaces. what makes them able to exert this sort of influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult.

Social networks and secondary health conditions: the critical secondary team for individuals with spinal cord injury.

Objectives: To describe the structure of informal networks for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in the community, to understand the quality of relationship of informal networks, and to understand the role of informal networks in the prevention and management of secondary health conditions (SHCs).

Design: Mixed-method descriptive study.

Setting: Ontario, Canada Participants: Community-dwelling adults with an SCI living in Ontario Interventions/methods: The Arizona Social Support Interview Survey was used to measure social networks.

Secondary health conditions and spinal cord injury: an uphill battle in the journey of care.

Purpose: To understand the journey of care in the prevention and management of secondary health conditions (SHCs) following spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: This was a case study design with 'Ontario' as the case. The Network Episode Model was used as the conceptual framework.

Application of the Andersen's health care utilization framework to secondary complications of spinal cord injury: a scoping review.

Purpose: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify research priority areas related to secondary complications and associated health care use for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Data Sources: Peer-reviewed journals were identified using CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Works Abstract and PsycInfo search engines. Key references were hand searched.

Competent jerks, lovable fools, and the formation of social networks.

When looking for help with a task at work, people turn to those best able to do the job. Right? Wrong. New research shows that work partners tend to be chosen not for ability but for likability.