Open AccessThe Role Of Context In Work Team Diversity Research: A Meta-Analytic Review
Author(s) -
Aparna Joshi,
Hyuntak Roh
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
academy of management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.193
H-Index - 318
eISSN - 1948-0989
pISSN - 0001-4273
DOI - 10.5465/amj.2009.41331491
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , meta analysis , psychology , context (archaeology) , team effectiveness , team composition , variance (accounting) , multilevel model , industrial and organizational psychology , applied psychology , knowledge management , organizational behavior , social psychology , sociology , business , computer science , statistics , geography , mathematics , anthropology , medicine , accounting , archaeology
Integrating macro and micro theoretical perspectives, we conducted a meta-analysis examining the role of contextual factors in team diversity research. Using data from 8,757 teams in 39 studies conducted in organizational settings, we examined whether contextual factors at multiple levels, including industry, occupation, and team, influenced the performance outcomes of relations-oriented and task-oriented diversity. The direct effects were very small yet significant, and after we accounted for industry, occupation, and team-level contextual moderators, they doubled or tripled in size. Further, occupation- and industry-level moderators explained significant variance in effect sizes across studies.
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