A dynamic perspective on diverse teams: moving from the dual-process model to a dynamic coordination-based model of diverse team performance

Srikanth, K, Harvey, S and Peterson, R S (2016) A dynamic perspective on diverse teams: moving from the dual-process model to a dynamic coordination-based model of diverse team performance. Academy of Management Annals, 10 (1). pp. 453-493. ISSN 1941-6520 OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

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, Weingart, & Todorova, 2011). 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 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.

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Item Type: Article
Subject Areas: Organisational Behaviour
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© 2016 Academy of Management

Date Deposited: 17 May 2016 16:55
Date of first compliant deposit: 17 May 2016
Subjects: Performance
Team management
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 03:05
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/195
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