Viewing Diversity Through Different Lenses: Avoiding a Few Blind Spots

Bell, Myrtle P.; Berry, Daphne

doi:10.5465/amp.2007.27895336

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“…Conversely, some negative effects of gender dissimilarities may be predicted. For example, as an important indicator of readily observable dissimilarities, gender is often an essential component of identity construction (Bell & Berry, 2007;Tyran & Gibson, 2008). In line with social identity theory, differences among group members in terms of gender could be expected to result in negative stereotyping and decreased collaboration (Kramer, 1997;Owen, 2008;Randel & Jaussi, 2008).…”

Section: Surface-level Diversitymentioning

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Is university internationalization bad for performance? Examining two different types of diversity

Lauring

Selmer

2010

International Journal of Educational Research

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Section: Surface-level Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Is university internationalization bad for performance? Examining two different types of diversity

Lauring

Selmer

2010

International Journal of Educational Research

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“…However, some negative effects of gender dissimilarities could be predicted. For example, as an important visible indicator of dissimilarity, gender is often an essential component of personal and group identity (Bell and Berry, 2007; Tyran and Gibson, 2008). Congruent with SCT, differences among group members in terms of gender could be expected to result in negative stereotyping and decreased interaction (Kramer, 1997; Owen, 2008; Randel and Jaussi, 2008).…”

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Knowledge sharing in diverse organisations

Lauring¹,

Selmer²

2011

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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It has been argued that both strengths and weaknesses of diversity in organisations stem from the different demographic, national, linguistic, social and cultural backgrounds of their members. However, few attempts have been made to link different types of diversity to knowledge sharing despite the fact that organisations which can make full use of their collective knowledge and expertise could be expected to be more efficient, effective and creative. Therefore, a survey was directed towards 16 diverse academic departments in three large universities in Denmark, and 489 academics took part. As predicted, results showed that diversity related to internationalisation (cultural and linguistic) had more positive associations with knowledge sharing than inherent demographic diversity (age and gender), which generally had negative or no relationships with knowledge sharing. The implications of these findings for the management of knowledge in intensive diverse organisations are discussed in detail.

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“…Research addressing such questions could benefit from assessing the range of potential outcomes suggested earlier – as well as potential mediators like threat rigidity – of the extent to which brainwriting is adopted and useful within institutions over a sustained period of time. Owing to the potential benefits of group member diversity on creativity (Bell, 2007; Bell & Berry, 2007; Borrill et al , 2000; Stasson & Bradshaw, 1995), research on the interactive role of individual differences, group composition, faultlines, and group processes within brainwriting groups could have substantial theoretical and practical importance.…”

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Better than brainstorming? Potential contextual boundary conditions to brainwriting for idea generation in organizations

Heslin

2009

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

129

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Organizations and societies all need good, useful ideas to survive and prosper. People often enjoy brainstorming, though it is not as productive as they tend to believe. Groups can potentially generate more and better ideas when ‘brainwriting’; that is, silently sharing written ideas in a time‐ and sequence‐structured group format. This conceptual paper identifies likely boundary conditions to the promising findings from brainwriting laboratory research generalizing to real‐world organizational contexts. Important dimensions of organizational context may be revealed by drawing on the journalistic principle to examine what, who, when, where, and why certain outcomes result from particular organizational practices (Johns, 2006). Multiple potential contextual moderators are suggested in each of these five areas. Subsequent field research will inform the idea‐generation literature as well as those concerned with eliciting high‐quality, useful ideas to address particular organizational and societal challenges.

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Viewing Diversity Through Different Lenses: Avoiding a Few Blind Spots

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Is university internationalization bad for performance? Examining two different types of diversity

Is university internationalization bad for performance? Examining two different types of diversity

Knowledge sharing in diverse organisations

Better than brainstorming? Potential contextual boundary conditions to brainwriting for idea generation in organizations

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