ABSTRACT

We investigated a plausible intermediate process and a boundary condition that elaborates the diversity–team creativity relationship to address mixed findings on the relationship between diversity and creativity. Our analysis using multi-source data collected from 128 work groups showed that age diversity and functional background diversity had negative and positive effects, respectively, on knowledge sharing and subsequent team creativity. Moreover, the effects of the four diversity attributes (age, gender, functional background, and tenure) on knowledge sharing were all negative in groups with low status differential, whereas the same effects became significantly positive in groups with high status differential. This study demonstrates a mechanism through which group diversity facilitates team creativity based on the information processing view of diversity and the functional approach to social status.

摘要

我们研究了合理的中间过程和边界条件，阐明了多样性与团队创造力之间的关系，以解决关于多样性与创造力之间关系的混合发现。我们使用从128个工作组收集的多源数据进行的分析表明，年龄多样性和职能背景多样性分别对知识共享和随后的团队创造力具有负面和正面影响。此外，在状态差异小的群体中，四个多样性属性（年龄，性别，功能背景和任期）对知识共享的影响均为负，而在状态差异较大的群体中，相同的影响变得显着为正。