The existing literature on diverse teams suggests that diversity is both helpful to teams in making more information available and encouraging creativity and damaging to teams in reducing cohesion and information sharing. Thus the extant literature suggests that diversity within teams is a double-edged sword that leads to both positive and negative effects simultaneously. This literature has not, however, fully embraced the increasing calls in the broader groups literature to take account of time in understanding how groups function [e.g. Cronin, M. A., Weingart, L. R., & Todorova, G. (2011). Dynamics in groups: Are we there yet? The Academy of Management Annals, 5, 571–612]. We review the literature on diverse teams employing this lens to develop a dynamic perspective that takes account of the timing and flow of diversity's effects. Our review suggests that diversity in groups has different short-term and long-term effects in ways that are not fully captured by the currently dominant double-edged sword metaphor. We identify an emerging perspective that suggests a tropical depression metaphor—that has the potential, over time, to develop either into a dangerous hurricane or diffuse into a rainstorm that gives way to sunshine, as more apt to capture the dynamic effects of diversity in teams. We conclude by outlining an agenda for redirecting future research on diverse teams using this more dynamic perspective.

现有的有关多元化团队的文献表明，多元化既有助于团队提供更多信息，又可以鼓励创造力，并损害团队的凝聚力和信息共享。因此，现有文献表明，团队内部的多样性是一把双刃剑，可同时带来正面和负面影响。然而，该文献并未完全接受更广泛的群体文献中越来越多的呼吁，以考虑时间来理解群体的功能[例如，Cronin，MA，Weingart，LR，和Todorova，G.（2011）。团体动态：我们到了吗？管理学年鉴，5，571–612]。我们回顾了有关采用这种视角的不同团队的文献，以发展出一种动态的观点，该观点考虑了多样性影响的时机和流程。我们的评论表明，群体中的多样性具有短期和长期影响，这在当前占主导地位的双刃剑隐喻中还没有完全体现出来。我们发现了一个新兴的观点，暗示着一个热带低气压的隐喻，随着时间的推移，它有可能发展成危险的飓风或扩散成暴风雨，然后逐渐转化为日照，从而更易于捕捉团队中多样性的动态影响。 。最后，我们概述了一个议程，该议程将使用这种更具动态性的视角来重定向未来对不同团队的研究。