"The Benefits of Multicultural Teams and Intercultural Training" 8 posts Sort by created date Sort by defined ordering View as a grid View as a list

A look at the bright side of multicultural team diversity — Stahl, Maekla, Zander, & Maznevski (2010)

This article identifies the positive aspects of multicultural teams and proposes paths for more rigorous research in the future. 

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Framework for managing multicultural project teams - Ochieng & Price (2009)

This paper demonstrates how multicultural teams can foster new perspectives related to problem solving. It also suggests how a project manager can best organize and influence multicultural construction project teams. 

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Beyond Individual Creativity: The Superadditive Benefits of Multicultural Experience for Collective Creativity in Culturally Diverse Teams — Tadmor, Satterstrom, Jang, & Polzer (2012)

This study found that multicultural experiences increase a group's collective creativity. Multicultural, diverse groups were found to perform better on tasks related to fluency, flexibility, and novelty—three dimensions of creativity. 

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Creating value with diverse teams in global management — DiStefano & Maznevski (2000)

This article takes a nuanced look at multicultural teams and what causes them to either succeed or fail. It provides an exigence for intercultural training and demonstrates how diversity alone cannot improve professional team and company performance.

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Research: Does it Really Work? — LeaderSHIFTin

This is a collection of research that demonstrates how racial diversity is financially beneficial to companies/businesses. 

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Gender Dissimilarity, Specific Status and Individual Creativity — Subasi & van Ginkel (2017)

This study demonstrates how high status/authority within a workplace can mitigate the negative effects of gender dissimilarity on individual job performance. 

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Is there a payoff from top-team diversity? — Barta, Kleiner, & Neumann (2012)

This article presents research that shows how companies with multicultural leadership were also highly successful financially. 

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Demographic Dissimilarity, Information Access and Individual Performance — Subasi (2017)

This is a dissertation that explores how both nationality and authority/status affect individual job performance as well as someone's ability to work successfully in teams. 

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