Effects of Social Identity, Network Connectivity, and Prior Performance on Career Progression and Resilience: A Study of NCAA Basketball Coaches Author: Daniel Halgin Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/643 This work is posted on eScholarship@BC, Boston College University Libraries. Boston College Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, 2009 Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. BOSTON COLLEGE Carroll School of Management Department of Organization Studies EFFECTS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY, NETWORK CONNECTIVITY, AND PRIOR PERFORMANCE ON CAREER PROGRESSION AND RESILIENCE: A STUDY OF NCAA BASKETBALL COACHES Dissertation by DANIEL HALGIN Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2009 © Copyright by DANIEL HALGIN 2009 Effects of Social Identity, Network Connectivity, and Prior Performance on Career Progression and Resilience: A Study of NCAA Basketball Coaches By Daniel Halgin Stephen P. Borgatti Ph.D., Chair ABSTRACT This study was an investigation of the effects of social identity on career progression and career resilience. Particular attention was given to the predictive impact of social identity of membership in an identifiable professional sub-grouping. Using NCAA basketball coaches as an empirical setting, quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted to predict the status of next employer for job seekers who voluntarily changed jobs (n = 282), and the employability resilience of job seekers who were fired (n = 151). Job seekers with the social identity of membership in an identifiable professional sub-grouping (in this empirical setting, defined as membership in a coaching family or coaching tree) were hired for positions with employers of higher status, and exhibited greater employability resilience than was the case for job seekers without such a social identity. Because membership in an identifiable professional sub-grouping signals concise information about the social identity of an individual above and beyond prior performance, network connectivity and status affiliations, it is theorized that individuals with such a social identity are more easily understood, more predictable, and are therefore more valuable in the labor market. Additional career benefits are accrued by individuals who claim their ascribed identity, and by individuals who have social identities characterized as relational actors. Recommendations for future research on social identity of membership in an identifiable professional sub-grouping are offered. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................. iii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DEDICATION ........................................................... v CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2: THEORY .................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER 3: EMPIRICAL SETTING ......................................................................... 45 U.S. NCAA Basketball ....................................................................................................... 45 Social Identities in NCAA Basketball ................................................................................ 49 CHAPTER 4: METHODS ............................................................................................... 62 Predicting Employer Status ................................................................................................. 67 Predicting Employability Resilience ................................................................................... 68 CHAPTER 5: RESULTS ................................................................................................. 84 Employer Status .................................................................................................................. 84 Employability Resilience Analysis ..................................................................................... 92 Post Hoc Analyses .............................................................................................................. 96 CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSION ......................................................................................... 107 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................ 123 APPENDIX A: DETERMINING THE STATISTICAL INTEGRITY OF IDENTIFIABLE PROFESSIONAL SUB-GROUPINGS IN NCAA BASKETBALL ..............................................................................................................138 APPENDIX B: STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF IDENTIFIABLE PROFESSIONAL SUB-GROUPINGS IN NCAA BASKETBALL ..........................143 APPENDIX C: MULTIPLE REGRESSION QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROCEDURE MODELS ..............................................................................................144 APPENDIX D: POST HOC ANALYSES ....................................................................145 APPENDIX E: A DETAILED EXAMPLE OF THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL IDENTITY ON CAREER PROGRESSION & RESILIENCE .................................150 i APPENDIX F: GLOSSARY OF RELEVANT BASKETBALL TERMS ................153 ii LIST OF TABLES TABLE 1: Existing Research Examining Objective Career Progression .......................38 TABLE 2: Comparison of 16 Professional Sub-Groupings in NCAA Basketball (2001-2007) ..................................................................................................60 TABLE 3: Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Matrix of Employer Status Analysis ........................................................................................................61 TABLE 4: Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Table of Variables Predicting Employer Status Among Coaches with the Social Identity of Membership in an Identifiable Professional Sub-Grouping ........................77 TABLE 5: Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Matrix for Employability Resilience Analysis ......................................................................................79 TABLE 6: Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Matrix for Employability Resilience Analysis Among Coaches with the Social Identity of Membership in an Identifiable Professional Sub-Grouping .........................81 TABLE 7: A Summary of Study Variables ....................................................................83 TABLE 8: Negative Binomial Regression Models of Employer Status .......................102 TABLE 9: Negative Binomial Regression Models of Employer Status Among Coaches with the Social Identity of Membership in an Identifiable Professional Sub-Grouping ........................................................................103 TABLE 10: Logistic Regression Models of Employability Resilience .........................104 TABLE 11: Logistic Regression Models of Employability Resilience Among Coaches with the Social Identity Of Membership in an Identifiable Professional Sub-Grouping ........................................................................105 TABLE 12: Summary of Hypotheses and Findings .......................................................106 iii LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE 1: Identifiable Professional Sub-Groupings as Social Identities Among Individuals in the Same Profession ..............................................................36 FIGURE 2: Identifiable Professional Sub-Groupings as Social Identities Among Neuroscientists .............................................................................................37 FIGURE 3: Hypothesized Predictors of Employer Status ...............................................43 FIGURE 4: Hypothesized Predictors of Employability Resilience .................................44 FIGURE 5: Identifiable Professional Sub-Groupings as Social Identities Among NCAA Basketball Coaches ..........................................................................59 FIGURE 6: Informational Material Published by Members of Identifiable Professional Sub-Groupings in NCAA Basketball ......................................61 FIGURE 7: Comparison of the Mean Employer Status of Coaches with Various Ascribed Social Identities Who Changed Jobs between 2001 and 2007 .....89 FIGURE 8: Comparison of Mean Employer Status for Coaches without an Ascribed Social Identity, An Ascribed but not Claimed Identity, and an Ascribed and Claimed Identity ....................................................................................90 FIGURE 9: Comparison of the Mean Employer Status of Coaches with Social Identities Characterized using Different Language ......................................91 FIGURE 10: Comparison of Employability Resilience for Coaches without an Ascribed Social Identity, An Ascribed but not Claimed Identity, and an Ascribed and Claimed Identity .....................................................................99 FIGURE 11: Comparison of the Employability Resilience of Fired Coaches with Social Identities Characterized using Different Language .........................100 FIGURE 12: The Interaction Effect of Ascribed Social Identity and Tenure on Employer Status .........................................................................................101 iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In these few paragraphs I want