Matching Organizational Structure and Social Network Extracted from Email Communication

The following paper presents the concept of matching social network and corporate hierarchy in organizations with stable corporate structure. The idea allows to confirm whether social position of an employee calculated on the basis of the social network differs significantly from the formal employee role in the company. The results of such analysis may lead to possible company management improvement enabling to gain a competitive edge. In order to perform this task the authors have made experiments with the use of two real-life datasets: Enron and mid-sized manufacturing companies showing which social network metrics may be suitable to match organizational structure and social network with good results.