SOCIO-COMMUNICATIONAL INFORMAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE SOCIAL REINTEGRATION STAFF IN A ROMANIAN DETENTION UNIT. SOCIAL HUB CASE STUDY
SOCIO-COMMUNICATIONAL INFORMAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE SOCIAL REINTEGRATION STAFF IN A ROMANIAN DETENTION UNIT. SOCIAL HUB CASE STUDY

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to study socio-communicational interactions on informal topics among social reintegration staff in a detention unit in Romania, using sociometry and Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) research methods. The research has two main objectives: the first one is to investigate the association between the highest values of the "social hub" indicator obtained by group members and "the accumulated work experience within the target group" indicator. The second objective refers to investigating the association between the highest values of the "social hub" indicator obtained by group members and the "employees’ influence power" indicator. This research is useful for decision-makers in prisons because it shows the way to discover employees who benefit from increased social capital, which in fact represents sustainable human resources for organizational leadership. Such employees can contribute to the knowledge transfer or information flow within the network, including promoting the adoption of new management policies and increasing the cohesion degree within the group. The sources of the research are books and articles that develop the subject of social network analysis, some of which are written by well-known authors. To achieve the proposed objectives, it was necessary to represent the employees' informal socio-communicational networks, both the social support network and the trust network, within the social reintegration sector, which constitutes the target group. The networks were identified through a questionnaire answered by members of the social reintegration sector. The questionnaire aimed to obtain and represent the relational choices (connections) expressed by each employee in the context of informal social interactions on topics outside the professional environment. The questionnaire was administered digitally through the Google Forms platform with the agreement of the participants, after obtaining approval from the institution's management.

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