bank_wiring_room — Bank wiring room (1939)

Description

Observed interactions among 14 employees of the bank wiring room of the Western Electric Company (Hawthorne plant, Chicago), from the Hawthorne studies, first presented by F. J. Roethlisberger and W. J. Dickson (1939). The data became better known through the analysis of G. Homans (1950), and the blockmodel (CONCOR) analysis of R. Breiger, S. Boorman and P. Arabie (1975). The employees worked in a single room, and include two inspectors (I1 and I3), three solderers (S1, S2 and S3), and nine wiremen or assemblers (W1 to W9). The data were distributed by L. C. Freeman on his network data page at the University of California, Irvine (no longer online), from which this version was obtained via the Internet Archive.

Nodes are employees, and in each network an edge connects two employees who were observed engaging in the corresponding relation with each other. The six relations are given as separate networks:

RDGAM: participation in horseplay (games), undirected.
RDCON: participation in arguments about open windows (controversy), undirected.
RDPOS: friendship (positive relations), undirected.
RDNEG: antagonistic (negative) behavior, undirected.
RDHLP: helping others with work, directed; an edge (i, j) indicates that i helped j.
RDJOB: trading of job assignments, directed (the meaning of the edge direction is not documented).

The networks have the following properties:

Nodes: name, the label of the employee (I: inspector, S: solderer, W: wireman).
RDJOB: Edges: weight, the number of times the workers traded job assignments.

Tags

Social Offline Unweighted Metadata

Citation

F. J. Roethlisberger, W. J. Dickson, "Management and the Worker." Harvard University Press (1939) scholar.google.com
R. L. Breiger, S. A. Boorman, P. Arabie, "An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling." Journal of Mathematical Psychology 12(3), 328-383 (1975) 10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://web.archive.org/web/20210115130726/http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#wiring

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
RDGAM	14	28	4.00	1.89	4.23	16.50	0.33	0.80	4	0.86	Undirected	Unipartite	name		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
RDCON	14	19	2.71	2.49	3.91	0.80	-0.25	0.67	2	0.57	Undirected	Unipartite	name		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
RDPOS	14	13	1.86	1.55	2.10	9.21	-0.20	0.64	5	0.64	Undirected	Unipartite	name		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
RDNEG	14	19	2.71	2.34	2.94	1.65	-0.63	0.25	3	0.86	Undirected	Unipartite	name		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
RDHLP	14	24	1.71	2.09	3.08	2.43	-0.21	0.29	3	0.86	Directed	Unipartite	name		1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
RDJOB	14	7	0.50	1.07	1.00	4.26	-0.47	0.00	4	0.50	Directed	Bipartite	name	weight	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB