...Abstract The Power of Social Networking Sites in the context of Online Recruitment A thesis submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the award of BA Honours Management Author: Adeel Qurashi Mr Bill Sutherland 17th of April 2009 Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Business School Garthdee Road Aberdeen AB10 7QE Tel: + 44 1224 262000 Web: www.rgu.ac.uk Supervisor: Date: The Power of Social Networking Sites in the context of Online Recruitment II Abstract Abstract Social Networking Sites are experiencing a rapid growth; there seems to be no limit to their size. Many Social Networking Sites boast with millions of members using their networks on regular basis to communicate, share, create, and collaborate with others. Popular examples of these Social Networking Sites are Facebook, LinkedIn and Bebo. Although most of these sites lack decent business models, they are valued at millions of pounds. Google paid 1.5 billion dollar for YouTube when it wasn’t even earning a single penny. The reason successful Social Networking Sites have become so valuable is due to the amount of people that are using it; and people are exactly what organisations are after. This report aims to find out whether Social Networking Sites have the same value in the context of recruitment. Academic literature extensively discusses online recruitment, however not much is said about recruitment on Social Networking Sites: ‘Sociocruitment’. Research revealed that professionals...
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...Social networking • How does social networking increase a person’s power? • What social networking strategies could one initiate to potentially enhance career success? Agenda PART 1 How does Social Networking enhance your power? Social Networking defined What is Power? Power and Influence How does Social Networking Boost your Power? PART 2 How do Social Networking Strategies enhance your career success? What is career success? Research Analysis Influencing Others Case Study PART 3 Questions Wrap Up What is social networking? Social Networking and Power? Access to the right people with information, the faster one can access information the more powerful they become in an organisation Increase your visibility both in and outside the organisation Visibility leads to influence Types of Power What is Career Success? Motivators to social network Expectancy Theory Defining Career success Tailoring social networking strategies to career objectives How does social networking enhance your career success? How does social networking enhance your career success? Internal Networking Internal networking results in promotion and salary growth Higher visibility Higher influence – leading to Power. External Networking This provides job mobility outside the organisation Acquiring Employment – Does Networking Provide an Edge? A study conducted in 1974 reviewed how 282 men from varying...
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...Term Paper Question: How does social networking increase a person’s power? What social networking strategies could one initiate to potentially enhance career success? Term Paper Content: Power is the capacity of a person, team or organization to influence others. Power can be derived from five sources: • Legitimate Power: An agreement among organizational members that people in certain roles can request certain behaviors of others • Reward: The ability to control the allocation of rewards valued by others • Coercive: Authority or power that is dependent on fear, suppression of free will, and/or use of punishment or threat, for its existence. • Expert: The capacity to influence others by possessing knowledge or skills that they value • Referent: The capacity to influence others on the basis on a high level of identification with, admiration of, or respect for the powerholder/ leader The amount of power derived from these sources can be determined by the following Contingencies of Power: • Substitutability: Power decreases with the ability to substitute the valued resource • Centrality: The degree and nature of interdependence the power holder and others • Discretion: The freedom to exercise judgment rather than following specific rules or asking for permission • Visibility: People gain power by being seen as possessing valued resources, valued knowledge or higher authority Individuals with well connected social networks increase their centrality and visibility...
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...this study and for correcting grammatical error in this paper. Ms. Carla Fiel, who taught the researchers in statistical analysis Of course the panellists; Ms. Maurich May Cainap and Sir Russel Valdez who criticized this study. Aside from that, the researchers would like to give the sincerest gratitude to the respondents for answering the questionnaires; the researchers’ subjects for their voluntary participation in their experimental procedure and for their willingness to take challenges to them and consequences. The researchers would like also to thank their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cuisia and Mr. and Mrs. Yacap, for giving financial contribution to their study. Abstract This research paper is entitled, "The effects of social networking sites to the academic excellence of the students in SAGIS". The researchers had decided to study this because SNS is getting more popular among teenagers and students and curious of the effects of SNS to them. Since the students are still high school students, the researchers decided to conduct this research to gain students, teachers, parents’ knowledge. It only covered the whole high school department of SAGIS, from 1st year to 4th year which totalled in 44 respondents. The researchers used the simple random sampling (SRS) to pick 30 students and purposive sampling since the students are Aloysians and they aren’t the same in Intelligence...
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...once seen as a medium that diminished social capital (Kraut et al, 1998). Now it is seen as a way that maintains social contact (Wellman et al, 2001). In the article Opening Closed Regimes, the writers wondered whether Mohammed Bouazizi believed he would play such a role in releasing a wave of protest for democracy in the Arab world. His story of stepping in front of a civic building in Tunisia and setting himself on fire in protest of the government was one of many that were retold on social networking sites in ways that stirred protesters to organise protests and criticise their governments. (Howard et al, 2011). Residents of the Arab nations used social media to help inform Western news teams about events on the ground. Social networking helped put a human face on political power and became a causation of the Arab Spring. Of the online tools, social networking sites have experienced the most prolific growth (Diffley et al, 2011). People spend hours connecting to others on social networks (McGrath, 2010). This evolution of social networking could not escape the corporations’ attentions, which are in constant search for new instruments meant to help them increase their market shares (Chis and Talpos, 2011). Studies by Forrester research show that spending on social networking will increase from $455 million in 2008 to $3.1billion in 2014, a 335% increase (Horovitz, 2009). Based on the above, my paper will focus on how social networking has become an indispensable tool for everyone...
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...Mifflin Inc. Southridge, MA 20345 12345 Main Street Phone: (224) 555-0190 Fax: (224) 555-0192 E-mail: MMyers@ FundeeMifflin .com ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING INDUSTRY CHAPTER 1 The social networking industry is growing faster than high-value online advertising markets than in online advertising markets. There will be 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, a 19.2% increase over 2011, according to eMarketer "Worldwide Social Network Usage: Market Size and Growth Forecast" report. According to 2009 figures Facebook has become the largest global social network in number of users In 2012, 63.2% of internet users will visit a social network at least once a month, rising to 67.6% in 2013 and 70.7% in 2014. At those user rates, one out of every five people in the world will use a social network this year, and one in every four will do so in 2014. Social network services provide an opportunity for building of social network among people. These are persons have common interest and the service gives a profile of the user and a variety of additional services. The industry prospers because it enables users to share ideas, activities, common interests, and even services within their individual networks. There is strong competition within the industry. There are a number of features that social networking sites compete on. The ability to monitor relationship, the creation of preferred friends list, and the level of technical errors are each used to compete...
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...Negative Effects of Social Networking Shelly Miner Western Governors University WGU Student #000246417 Negative Effects of Social Networking Social Networking or Social Media Websites (Social Networking) allow users to quickly share information and create online connections with other users. Despite the benefits, social networking can negatively effect us socially and can lead to undeveloped social skills and social alienation. Our intimate relationships can be negatively effected because social networking users can quickly find and communicate discreetly with others which can potentially lead to infidelity. Information posted on social networking sites can also have negative effects on current or potential employment opportunities. Social networks are intended to share information with everyone; this lack of protection can increase security risks such as identity theft, cyberbullying and computer viruses. Although each of these social networking sites offers attractive incentives and overwhelming popularity, research indicates that social networking can actually be detrimental because it has negative effects on social skills, relationships, employment, and security. Since their creation, social networking are rapidly changing the way we communicate, discover and share information and has become a crucial part of not only our personal lives but our professional lives. Social networking can be seen almost everywhere we go from retail stores...
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...your city’s power went out? Would you light a candle? Reach for a flashlight? Or would you run for your cell phone? Most of us would choose the last option, but without power, most cell phones become useless due to lack of service. Imagine, no connection to the world outside your house. No FaceBook, no Twitter, no Instagram or Pinterest. For most, including myself, that would be a nightmare. As much as it pains me to admit, I am an avid user of all of these social networks. It is interesting to think that there once was a time when writing letters, using only home phones or physically going to see a person were the only means of communication, a time that recent generation children will only learn about from reading history books, or hearing from their families. Today I am going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of social networks. The good being origins and advantages, the bad being disadvantages and the ugly being the dangers of social networking. In today’s society, where technology is the driving force for almost everything, there is no escaping social networking. Whether it’s being told to follow someone on Twitter, taking a photo and uploading it to Instagram or finding out more information about a company through it’s FaceBook page, you can do almost anything with the help of social networking. We have all heard of these social networking outlets, but they were not the first in the business. According to an article A Brief History of Social Media, ‘the...
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...How Social Media Is Changing the Way We Communicate What is the first thing you would do if your city’s power went out? Would you light a candle? Reach for a flashlight? Or would you run for your cell phone? Most of us would choose the last option, but without power, most cell phones become useless due to lack of service. Imagine, no connection to the world outside your house. No FaceBook, no Twitter, no Instagram or Pinterest. For most, including myself, that would be a nightmare. As much as it pains me to admit, I am an avid user of all of these social networks. It is interesting to think that there once was a time when writing letters, using only home phones or physically going to see a person were the only means of communication, a time that recent generation children will only learn about from reading history books, or hearing from their families. Today I am going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of social networks. The good being origins and advantages, the bad being disadvantages and the ugly being the dangers of social networking. In today’s society, where technology is the driving force for almost everything, there is no escaping social networking. Whether it’s being told to follow someone on Twitter, taking a photo and uploading it to Instagram or finding out more information about a company through it’s FaceBook page, you can do almost anything with the help of social networking. We have all heard of these social networking outlets, but they...
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...Communication Mark Dunne 20067332 Workplace Impact of Social Media 1 Introduction This report summarises an article written by (Bennett et al.,2009). It will focus on the benefits of social networking and the disadvantages of social networking. 1.1 Social networking Social networking is the practice of expanding ones business contacts or social contacts by making connections with people all over the world. 1.2 Benefits of social networking in the workplace. Social networking now plays an instrumental part in today’s world of business. Nardi (2002) argues that employee’s social networks lay an important place in the workplace, stating that social networking is crucial to businesses that require teamwork. Lange (2008) supports this view and says that social networks are very efficient means of initiating and maintaining contacts with a company’s different sectors anywhere in the world. By maintaining contact anywhere in the world, tasks can be done quicker and more efficiently even if you are somewhere else in the world. These sites help provide workers with a chatroom, instant messaging, discussion groups, blogging, emails and videos of work. When social networking entered the public domain, many recognised it as an opportunity to further enhance work-based communication practices (Nardi, 2002). 1.3 Critique I find with this article that it highlights all the benefits of social networking. It praises social networking, and it gives no real negative response towards it....
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...Dominance of Social Networking Introduction In early 2013, German courts have ruled the internet as ‘essential’ to the German citizens. It’s not only in Germany where we see that the internet has become huge part of our daily lives. All over the world we see that there are more and more people using the internet every day. The internet is a boon in so many ways, but like everything it also has a flip side. The internet provides us with facilities and information man couldn’t imagine of having within a few seconds a few decades ago. Today, we take it for granted. One of the boons of the internet is Social Networking websites. For many, social networking IS the internet. Ever since the innovation of social networking websites, more and more people are beginning to use the internet. These sites help us stay in touch with friends and family all over the world, and staying in touch is just the beginning. Social networking has changed the world, and is constantly doing so. There have been suggestions that social networking is only a “fad” and will soon go out of “fashion”. But is it really just a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Social networking has facilitated so many processes like advertising, marketing; it increases the job opportunities, and spreads news faster than ever, it is used for recruitment by companies, for sharing pictures, experiences…almost everything. Social media is defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as “a form of electronic...
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...Influence and evolution of social networking on marketing communication about viability about sustainability of Social Networking as a marketing communication tool Things which can be included in topic are- 1. What is Social Networking? (in brief) 2. IMC 3. Role of social networking as marketing communication 4. Influence of Sn on Mc 5. Evolution of Sn on Mc 6. Sustainability of Sn as Mc 7. Future scope 8. Conclusion Social Networking A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes", which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, marketing communication etc. [pic] There are many SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES as online services platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centred...
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...#what is social networking? Social Networking - perhaps you've heard of it before, but are not quite sure what it means. Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand informationand experiences about any number of topics . . . from golfing,gardening, developing friendships andprofessional alliances. A broad class of web sites and services that allow you to connect with friends, family, and colleague's online, as well as meet people with similar interests or hobbies. When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used. These websites are known as social sites. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users. Depending on the website in question, many of these online community members share common interests in hobbies, religion, or politics. Once you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the profile pages of other members and possibly even contacting them. The friends that you can make are just one of the many benefits to social networking...
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...Case 12: Facebook All questions are given 1 point except Qn 7. 1. Definition and characteristics of social networking (services). -Definition: social network collects any information that individuals share in network and connect the dots of personnel who have similarities building social relations based on the power of connection. -Characteristics: Social network services carries three main purposes, which are advertising, employee and idea screening and application development and gaming. Advertising is the main revenue resource that social network generates profits from. Social network gives an opportunity to the firms who wish to catch the user’s needs to promote their products or services to the users who are exposed in the network. Social network firms also helps companies to search for potential competent employees with any useful information saved in their database and to monitor current employees’ activities to prevent any possible negative impact on the company. Lastly, by taking a role of bridge between gaming developers, application, or software and the users in social networks, social network made it possible for them to grow through their service place and social network companies also earned benefit from being partner with those providers. 2. Explain the five (5) forces of social networking industry. And analyze whether it is a profitable industry. (You may not get all the information for the 5 forces analysis from the case. Then you can...
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...failure but if technology is a success it might give the company a competitive edge. Adopting a proven technology there is less risk of the company losing money but competitors would have taken advantage of that technology already. Cost is also a factor that needs to be taken before the company could adopt a certain technology; cost benefit analysis should be done. In the report the following topics will be discussed: * The new trends in software and service distribution * Social networking tools * Virtual reality * Biometrics * The new trends in networking and * Nanotechnology The report aims to advice Eskom on what actions should be taken with regards to the above technologies. Eskom is a state owned utility that supplies about 95% of electricity in South Africa. The company owns massive assets such as power stations (coal fired, nuclear, hydro, pump storage and wind turbines), transmission and distribution equipment. Eskom is currently building two coal fired power station. 2. The new trends in software and service distribution Bidgoli (2010:4), has classified software and service distribution into two trends which are pull and push technologies. According to O’Brien (1999:312), pull technology is a process whereby a user with a web browser gathers information from a...
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