TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural diversity and team performance: The role of team member goal orientation
AU - Nederveen Pieterse, Anne
AU - van Knippenberg, Daan
AU - van Dierendonck, Dirk
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As workforce diversity increases, knowledge of factors influencing whether cultural diversity results in team performance benefits is of growing importance. Complementing and extending earlier research, we develop and test theory about how achievement setting readily activates team member goal orientations that influence the diversity-performance relationship. In two studies, we identify goal orientation as a moderator of the performance benefits of cultural diversity and team information elaboration as the underlying process. Cultural diversity is more positive for team performance when team members' learning approach orientation is high and performance avoidance orientation is low. This effect is exerted via team information elaboration.
AB - As workforce diversity increases, knowledge of factors influencing whether cultural diversity results in team performance benefits is of growing importance. Complementing and extending earlier research, we develop and test theory about how achievement setting readily activates team member goal orientations that influence the diversity-performance relationship. In two studies, we identify goal orientation as a moderator of the performance benefits of cultural diversity and team information elaboration as the underlying process. Cultural diversity is more positive for team performance when team members' learning approach orientation is high and performance avoidance orientation is low. This effect is exerted via team information elaboration.
U2 - 10.5465/amj.2010.0992
DO - 10.5465/amj.2010.0992
M3 - Article
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 56
SP - 782
EP - 804
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 3
ER -