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Effects of Personal Social Capital on Managerial Positions

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Understanding the role of Personal Social Capital in selection and promotion of managers is important. Nevertheless, a research gap exists in evaluating the antecedents and mechanisms of the effect of Personal Social Capital on managerial positions. The aim of this study is to assess effects of three sources of Personal Social Capital on managerial positions. These are: connections with colleagues at work; connections with people who possess social capital assets such as wealth, high status, or reputation; and connections with neighbors.

2230 Israeli respondents answered a Personal Social questionnaire, Results confirm that connections with colleagues at work and with people with social capital assets directly affect managerial positions. the relationship between Personal Social Capital and connections with neighbors was found significant through the mediation of age.

Understanding the social resources that affect managerial positions is beneficial for managers and important for organizational insight into factors that affect managers.

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    Batia Ben Hador & Eyal Eckhaus

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Ben Hador, B., Eckhaus, E. (2019). Effects of Personal Social Capital on Managerial Positions. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Barath, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_43

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