Organizational Network Analysis: An Effective Measure of Employee Engagement
Discover how your team members interact and share information
Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) offers a powerful lens for workplace interactions that visualizes the flow of collaboration and influence. It moves beyond traditional hierarchical views to reveal the dynamic relationships and communication patterns that drive success.
By understanding these networks, businesses can unlock significant value and measure true influence, impact, and high-value products. ONA tells us how work gets done, rather than how an org chart suggests it should.
Key Benefits and Applications of ONA
Identify Hidden Leaders: ONA uncovers influential employees central to communication and advice networks, regardless of formal titles.
Map Expertise: Pinpoint subject matter experts by identifying who is most sought-after for information.
Strategic Workforce Planning: Visualize collaboration patterns to reveal critical dependencies and communication pathways, aiding in restructuring and M&A integration.
Internal Mobility & Career Pathing: Model successful career paths by analyzing the network development of employees transitioning into new roles.
Enhance Employee Experience: Identify isolated employees or teams that are disconnected from the broader network and provide early warnings of disengagement.
Cultivate a Thriving Culture: Diagnose cultural health to understand if your culture is collaborative or siloed.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI): Visually demonstrate the effectiveness of DEI initiatives by showing if underrepresented groups are integrated into key information and influence networks.
Flexible & Hybrid Work Models: Assess whether remote and hybrid employees are as connected as their in-office counterparts, ensuring equitable access to information.
Leverage AI in HR: ONA provides rich relational data that can fuel AI tools to predict outcomes like employee turnover.
Data & People Analytics: Complement traditional people metrics with a relational lens, adding the “how” and “why” to the “what” of organizational performance.
Drive Business Transformation: Identify key influencers and connectors best positioned to champion change and accelerate adoption during transformations.
Prodoscore’s Social Network: Use Cases
Disengaged Employees
Collaborators
Inbetweeners/Bridges
Organizational Silos
Why Your Company Needs Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)
Business Impact
- Identify managers who act as “bridges” between teams and objectively measure their availability.
- Spot “informal advisors,” the individuals who receive high inbound connections, indicating they are go-to resources for help or information.
- Get a real-time map of departmental collaboration versus siloed groups for organizational design validation.
- Measure an employee’s “integration speed” into a new role.
- Identify teams suffering from excessive meetings or individuals with shrinking networks.
- Track if information flows top-down or is more collaborative and cohesive.
- Analyze who is connected to senior leadership to see if there is equal access to influential networks.
- Compare network size and strength of remote employees to in-office peers.
- Detect subtle shifts in communication patterns that can predict employee turnover.
- Access an objective data stream of team collaboration, complementing subjective survey data.
- Safeguard knowledge and momentum by identifying productivity drivers.
- Track the formation of new communication pathways after mergers or reorganizations to measure integration success.
What can ONA tell you about your organization?
Organizational Network Analysis & Insights
Check out our latest eBook for more on the value of Organizational Network Analysis and Prodoscore’s Social Network tool.
Are you ready to unlock employee success?
Because great employees need insight, not oversight
