Race, opportunity, and diversity of social circles in managerial networks

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This study investigated the informal networks of white and minority managers. Minority managers had more racially heterogenous and fewer intimate network relationships. Within the minority group, differences in advancement potential were associated with different network configurations: high-potential individuals balanced same- and cross-race contacts; others had networks dominated by ties to whites. High-potential minorities also had more contacts outside their groups, fewer high-status ties, and less overlap between their social and instrumental circles. Relative to whites, minority managers viewed similar network characteristics as providing less access to career benefits. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Minorities, Whites, Race

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Occupational stress, social support, and the costs of health care

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Relationships among health care costs, social support, and occupational stress are investigated. Health care cost data were collected over two years for 260 working individuals. Multiple regression analyses were used to control for initial health care costs, age, and gender in predicting later costs; independent variables were stress, strain, social support, and their interactions. Main effects and interactions each accounted for significant proportions of the variance in various health care costs. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Job stress, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs

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On the social networks of managers

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Using data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, we compared the organizational membership networks and core discussion networks of managers and nonmanagers. For the two groups, the networks differed on a variety of characteristics, including ties to outside organizations and to co-workers, network size, and closeness of ties. We also found preliminary evidence that network differences were associated with income differences for nonmanagers. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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