In every organization, people build and rely on informally-built networks seeking for information, advice, and collaborations. Often the invisible people networks are different from the formal organization hierarchy. Uncovering the informal but effective networks and understanding how information in the organization flows become crucial and enormously valuable to organization leaders.

In this article, we will briefly explain what Organization Network Analysis (ONA) is about and how to effectively measure. A small sample dataset is used to demonstrate our ONA experiment and network graph.

This post is part of a series of people analytics experiments:

• Job skill match (Recruitment )
• Employee attrition prediction (Employee Management)
• Pay gap by gender, ethnicity, profession (Employee Compensation) FUTURE WORK
• Organizational network analysis (ONA)