Explaining diversity's impact on team performance: the ABC of diverse teams

Title: Explaining diversity's impact on team performance: the ABC of diverse teams
Creator: Mitchell, Rebecca; Boyle, Brendan
Relation: 22nd Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2008). 22nd ANZAM Conference 2008: Managing in the Pacific Century (Auckland, NZ 2-5 December, 2008)
Relation: http://www.promaco.com.au/2008/anzam
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2008
Description: This paper investigates the impact of diversity on knowledge creation and proposes three mediated pathways, affective, behavioural and cognitive. We argue that diverse composition impacts the performance of teams through the emergence of negative affect, through associated differences in knowledge and perspectives, and through the utilisation of deliberative, collaborative behaviours. We operationalise our model by theoretically investigating the role of exemplary affective, behavioural and cognitive variables, and develop testable propositions related to their impact on team knowledge creation efforts. We conclude with a discussion of implications of our model for theory and practice, and also suggest potential avenues for future research endeavour.
Subject: managing diversity; group dynamics; team processes; group processes
Identifier: uon:6221
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802842
Identifier: ISBN:1863081488
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