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Multicultural Organizations: Does a Positive Diversity Climate Promote Performance?
Author(s) -
LAURING JAKOB,
SELMER JAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-4762.2011.01011.x
Subject(s) - openness to experience , diversity (politics) , multiculturalism , value (mathematics) , extant taxon , sample (material) , social psychology , psychology , set (abstract data type) , cultural diversity , sociology , pedagogy , anthropology , mathematics , chemistry , chromatography , evolutionary biology , computer science , biology , programming language , statistics
In recent years the attention towards demographic diversity has increased among academics and practitioners dealing with organization management. Finding a possible connection between diversity and group performance has been the objective of much extant research. Still, however, results are inconclusive. Based on a sample consisting of 489 members of multicultural academic departments, we set out to examine the relationship between diversity climate (group openness to linguistic, visible, value, and informational diversity), and performance (perceived group performance, group satisfaction). We found openness to linguistic, value, and informational diversity to have strong positive associations with perceived group performance and group satisfaction. Implications of the findings are discussed in detail.