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Analysis of Social Ties in Small Project Team

Student: Shnyagina Tat`yana

Supervisor: Olga Evgenjevna Oshmarina

Faculty: Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

<p>The graduation paper is devoted to the research of social ties in small project team.</p><p>The purpose of the study is to develop technique to analyze the social networks within the organization, identify existing social ties in the organization, their structure and features.</p><p>The tasks of the study are:</p><p>1. Acquainted with the basic principles and methods of social network analysis.</p><p>2. Identify the main purpose of using social network analysis to study the interaction of employees within the group.</p><p>3. Develop a technique to the study of social relations within a small project team.</p><p>4. Describe the developed technique.</p><p>5. Demonstrate the results of its application in practice.</p><p>During this research, technique for analysis of social ties in small project team was developed, which can help identify existing social ties of various kinds (communication, working relationships, help) in the organization, their structure and features. This paper gives a description of the technique and set out the purposes for which it can be applied in the organization.</p><p>With its help were analyzed following small groups:</p><p>&bull; a group of students of the 3rd course NRU HSE NF;</p><p>&bull; staff of scientific laboratory;</p><p>&bull; staff of a department of IT-company in Nizhny Novgorod;</p><p>The number of these groups does not exceed 25 people.</p><p>During research in each group identified key individuals, in terms of various characteristics of centrality. Then, a comparison of identified opinion leaders of group with the official leaders was made.</p><p>For a group of students and staff of the laboratories were constructed likeness matrix, based on which the conclusions were made about how the likeness affects the formation of connections in a network of communication and working relationship in these teams.</p><p>This paper consists of an introduction, three chapters and a conclusion containing the findings and the results obtained in this study, a glossary, bibliography and appendices. The first chapter introduces the basic theoretical concepts and methods of social network analysis. In the second chapter describes the basic principles of the developed technique, as well as the purposes for which it can be used. The third chapter describes the process of social network analysis on the example of 3 small project teams using this technique.</p><p>The graduation paper includes 17 figures and 21 tables, the list of 25 references and 12 appendices. The numbers of pages are 104.</p>

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