A well-worn research debate is whether diversity is beneficial or detrimental to team success. On one hand, diversity has shown to facilitate team performance and engender creativity, yet studies have also found that diversity can have ill effects for team members and their work. Prior work has focused on mechanisms that lead to positive versus negative effects in teams by focusing on social category and information processing theories; however, the broader social psychological and sociological literature suggests additional social structural factors may play a role. In this article, I review findings suggesting that social structures, such as power and status of the team, may ultimately affect the link between work team diversity and performance outcomes. I make recommendations on how future research should not only consider the type and amount of work team diversity, but also focus on the social structure context in which diversity resides.

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工作团队多样性：通过团队权力和地位的视角重新聚焦

一个陈词滥调的研究辩论是多样性对团队成功是有益还是有害。一方面，多样性已被证明可以促进团队绩效并激发创造力，但研究还发现，多样性会对团队成员及其工作产生不良影响。之前的工作侧重于通过关注社会类别和信息处理理论导致团队中正面和负面影响的机制；然而，更广泛的社会心理学和社会学文献表明，其他社会结构因素可能发挥作用。在本文中，我回顾了表明社会结构（例如团队的权力和地位）可能最终影响工作团队多样性与绩效结果之间的联系的研究结果。