Everyone Knows Something:Exploring Stigmergic Organizational Behavior: Everyone Knows Something: Exploring Organizational Behavior and Performance through Soft-Stigmergic Approach

Organizational behavior theories generally agree that human capital is critical to teams and organizations, but little guidance exists on the extent to which such theories accurately explain the relative contributions of individual actors to overall performance.The experience also demonstrates that there are evidences that combination of cognitive, behavior and psychological perspectives those drive the performance boosting of the firm as well. Very recently, the knowledge sharing among the employee also has been envisaged as one of the strong imperative of enhancing the efficacy of the team. Using soft computing tools, social network measures and simulations based on data obtained from a software development firm, we investigate the relative effectiveness of cognitive social network theory and resource dependency theory as predictors of individuals¿ contributions to team performance. We have also been inspired by the behavior of social insect in team building and communication, which is called a stigmergy. Our results indicate that individual impacts on team's performance are more closely associated with knowledge and task dimensions than with social network structure.

Soumya Banerjee, B.E (Computer Sc.), Ph.d (Computer Science, Submitted to BIT, India), Head Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology, International Campus Mauritius, previously was at Microsoft Research, Cognizant. Dr. Taruna obtained her MBA and Ph.d from University of Lucknow India and she is an assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology, in the Department of management . She is specialist in Human resource and knowledge management domain and has 5 publications to her credit. She was also one of the leading participant of Knowledge Management workshops conducted by Tata Steel, India.