While most social network studies of employee innovation behavior examine the focal employees' (“egos'”) network structure, we employ an alter-centric perspective to study the personal characteristics of employees' network contacts — their “alters” — to better understand employee...

This paper discusses empowering employees through networking and mentoring and provides a model for implementation addressed and more often than not discussed in organizations today. The next logical step is to develop a model which addresses Mentoring, Empowering and Networking (M. E. N.) and...