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Building a Collaborative Culture in Organizations through Social Networking
Type of Presentation
Concurrent
Session Abstract
This research explores how an in-house training program helps create social networks in order to build a collaborative organizational culture.
Target Audience
The target audience may include senior human resource professionals, senior managers, and adult educators interested in social networks in organizational and academic settings.
Learning Outcomes
This paper will show adult educators or human resources development professionals how to build organizational culture through providing social networking opportunities in training and development contexts.
Session Description
Social networks in organizations play a key role in building a collaborative culture. They can help individuals improve collaboration not only within a team but also across functions which enables individuals to have smoother information flow, emotional support with a greater trust, and sharing of insights. This paper focuses on an organization's in-house leadership development seminar. It examines how the program helped leaders build social networks within their organization for an improved collaborative work environment. This paper provides critical components required for building social networks and are generated through the seminar. The components are trust, identity, and commonalities. With these identified critical components and essential aspects of the seminar, organizations will learn lessons that can be applied in their organizational settings. Adult educators, in particular, may benefit from this networking framework in educational settings.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Wednesday November 6