wiring: Roethlisberger, Dickson- Bank Wiring Room

In zalmquist/networkdata: Lin Freeman's Network Data Collection

Description

wiring: Six 14 by 14 matrices.

BACKGROUND These are the observational data on 14 Western Electric (Hawthorne Plant) employees from the bank wiring room first presented in Roethlisberger & Dickson (1939). The data are better known through a scrutiny made of the interactions in Homans (1950), and the CONCOR analyses presented in Breiger et al (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 interaction categories include: RDGAM, participation in horseplay; RDCON, participation in arguments about open windows; RDPOS, friendship; RDNEG, antagonistic (negative) behavior; RDHLP, helping others with work; and RDJOB, the number of times workers traded job assignments.

Usage

data(wiring)

Details

RDGAM symmetric, binary
RDCON symmetric, binary
RDPOS symmetric, binary
RDNEG symmetric, binary
RDHLP non-symmetric, binary
RDJOB non-symmetric, valued.

Source

Roethlisberger F. and Dickson W. (1939). Management and the worker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

References

Breiger R., Boorman S. and Arabie P. (1975). An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 12, 328-383.
Homans G. (1950). The human group. New York: Harcourt-Brace.

Examples

data(wiring)

##Plot
plot(wiring$RDCON)

##Vertex attributes
wiring$RDJOB%e%"edgevalue"
as.sociomatrix(wiring$RDJOB,attr="edgevalue")

zalmquist/networkdata documentation built on May 4, 2019, 9:08 p.m.