Social Networking's Ability to Improve Adaptation to Public Sector Employment

Abstract

Learning more about oneself has been an objective of administrative behavior studies. The term “emotional intelligence” was coined in 1995 by Daniel Goleman. Subsequent developments in information technology have made Goleman’s term invaluable in analyzing the improved self-awareness that social networking produces. Denhardt, Denhardt, Aristigueta, and Rawlings present that purposes for studying administrative behavior include 1) self-management, 2.) self-awareness, 3.) social awareness, and 4.) social skills. The concept of emotional intelligence has some relevance for all four of these objectives. Various types of social science have attempted to improve perception of our strengths in these concepts. Personality inventories have presented who individuals are as distinct with identifiable personality attributes. Personality models have developed explanation directed at the functional side of personality. Genographic studies have explained behavior in terms of behavioral impulses based on DNA. The inventories and personality models have been in use for several decades. The genographic studies are the most recent theoretical perspective. These various administrative behavior efforts to know more about ourselves all have the objective of causing people to have enough emotional intelligence to adequately understand their emotions and to appreciate the emotions of others. Social networking has become a phenomenon that now contends as a viable source of improved emotional intelligence. Those who involve themselves with social networking appear to possibly gain in an ability to adapt to organizational change. Empowerment within the public sector is another potential gain that happens as social networkers become more perceptive. The transaction consciousness of social networking develops an aptitude for interacting for gains in information and social reality. These three incentives all improve emotional intelligence and are incentives for social networking. Virtual reality increases in importance as social networking becomes more pervasive. The vivid image strength of this media contributes to encouraging the transaction reasoning process. Media richness theory purports the strengths and abilities of vivid images to transform cognitive processes. The trend in IT toward increased sophistication and vividness of images accelerates this transformative process. The virtual images that present the major political issues of the present are influential in career adjustment. Empowerment happens as cognitive phenomena yield to social media. The Weberian adjustment to bureaucracy happens in 2021 assisted by social media’s powerful cognitive influence. Social networking’s ability to improve emotional intelligence causes this media to influence successful adaptation to organizations.