...Gechinti Bede Onyeneke; Tomokazu Abe Purpose This study aimed to illustrate the conditions under which cultural diversity enhances workgroup creativity. It does so by investigating the impact of ethnic diversity on workgroup creativity through the mediating mechanisms of cognitive diversity...

...Katrin Leifels; Paul Bowen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between cultural diversity in teams and team members' individual well-being. The paper further explores the relationship between social resources, social stressors, team member well-being and the influence...

..., they are also important potential causes of distress. Lastly, the results suggest that the cultural diversity of a repatriate’s emotional support network is linked with characteristics of the assignment and that it affects the experience of repatriation. Research limitations/implications The results provide...

...Günter K. Stahl; Christof Miska; Hyun-Jung Lee; Mary Sully De Luque Purpose The purpose of this paper is to encourage scholars to look at commonly considered phenomena in international business and cross-cultural research in new ways and to theorize and explore how cultural diversity, distance...

...Sabrina Bresciani; Alice Comi Purpose The use of visual templates has proven instrumental in supporting group meetings. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether visual templates enable culturally diverse groups to achieve greater task precision in face-to-face meetings. Design...

...Jung-Nung Chang; Chia-Yi Cheng Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of learning orientation (LO) and team embeddedness (TE) on the turnover intention of team members within the context of both culturally diverse and uniform teams. Design/methodology/approach...

... of mechanisms leading to feelings of inclusion. Greater cultural diversity in the workforce is a fact of life in many Western countries, such as the USA (US Census Bureau, 2002) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2006), and must be managed effectively to avoid perceptions of discriminatory treatment that would...

... of adaptation by the Westerner to the Thai cultural environment, supporting the notion of crossvergence. Performance factors Cultural diversity Thailand © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Volume 11 Number 2 2004 3 Evidence for Crossvergence in the Perception of Task and Contextual...

... rather than socio‐cultural factors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Socio‐cultural factors Cultural diversity Communication Volume 11 Number 1 2004 15 A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Organizational Culture: Evidence from Universities in the Arab world and Japan Evangellos Dedoussis...

... in the field of managing cultural diversity. While much of this research is focused on the internal context of the workplace, relatively little attention has been given to the impact of culture on the service provider and customer interface. In an effort to shed some light on the service experiences...