... for agreeable conflict cultures. This finding is encouraging, given the increase in workplace diversity and desire to be responsive to needs of equity and inclusion. Therefore, leaders and managers should strive to establish agreeable conflict norms, even in the most culturally diverse organizations. The young...

...Gergana Todorova; Matthew R.W. Brake; Laurie R. Weingart Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of enriched group work design and objective and perceived expertise diversity in interdisciplinary research groups with a focus on two critical group processes: task conflict and idea...

...Jee Young Seong; Doo-Seung Hong Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactive effect of collective personality fit and its diversity on relationship conflict in a team context. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 1,265 employees and their leaders in 110...

...Professor Richard A. Posthuma; Nailah Ayub; Karen Jehn Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore whether national diversity in the form of national variety (differences in kind, e.g. number of nationalities) has a positive effect on group processes and performance whereas national separation...

...Deborah L. Kidder; Melenie J. Lankau; Donna Chrobot‐Mason; Kelly A. Mollica; Raymond A. Friedman This study used a scenario design to examine whether there are different reactions among whites based on how a diversity program is justified by an organization. A reactive justification (affirmative...