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described as Figure 2.This study proposed the example of organizational network
A to explanation the research process.
Table 1
The relationship matrix of laid-off employees
em
A1
em
A2
em
A3
em
A4
em
A5
em
A6
su
A
em
A1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
em
A2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
em
A3
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
em
A4
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
em
A5
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
em
A6
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
su
A
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
Fig. 2
Organizational Networks of laid-off employees
The study uses network software UCINET 6.182 to analyze the laid-off em-
ployees organizational networks indicators, including size, reachability, centrality,
distance, and position and role analysis. Due to different stress on network, those
indicators separately give us insight on how and for what degree they communi-
cate with each other. The study is capable of finding some clues about network
position for layoff. Then these variables will be used to construct network struc-
ture graph and data. With the approach, the research hopes to presume that the
structure or pattern of ties in a social network is meaningful to the members of the
network. The descriptions of each indicator as followed:
