Lecture 5: negative ties: the good, the bad and the ugly

Question 1

definition social ledger

Answer 1

the social ledger is an accounting of social assets, or social capital, derived from positive relationships and social liabilities derived from negative relationships

Question 2

definition negative tie

Answer 2

ongoing and recurring relationship wdithin the context of a work organization in which at leas 1 person dislikes (huger variety) another

Question 3

definition negative asymmetry

Answer 3

the hypothesis that, in certain circumstances, negative relationships may have greater explanatory power than positive relationships
- example: course evaluation nice to improve the bad things

Question 4

results article merluzzi (gender)

Answer 4

• woman and men cite an evenly amount of negative work ties
• woman are more likely to cite a negative work tie with a woman
• form woman respondents, the likelihood to cite another woman as a negative tie declines as their affective ties increase in woman