Analyzing the Resilience of the Employee Network in Joint-equity Commercial Banks

Abstract

In recent years, organizational resilience has been a hot topic in the field of management. The network consisting of employees in a company is a typical organization. The resilience of such employee networks is quite important for the company to be efficiently operated. For the situation of employee turnover and loss in joint-stock commercial banks, in this paper we define the risk as the number of employees leaving the company and examine the resilience of the employee network from three aspects: assimilation, adaptation and recovery. A computational model is constructed based on the process of "damage-assimilation-adaptation-recovery" for the employee network. Moreover, we compare the resilience for two different network structures belonging to complex networks: the small-world network and the scale-free network. Other factors including the communication among employees and the role of each employee are also taken into account. Our results show that the small-world network has remarkable advantages in assimilation and adaptation under the small scale of risk, while the scale-free network has stronger ability of recovery and higher resilience than the former. The employee networks with scale-free property may not be benefitted from protecting core employees.