| Perceived Dissimilarity and Individual Creativity in Diverse Team: A Cross-level Model |
Received:October 16, 2017 Revised:October 16, 2017 |
Key Words: diversity, dissimilarity, information elaboration, climate for inclusion |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Wang Chong* | Northeast Electric Power University |
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| Research on the relationship between work group diversity and individual creativity has ignored the individual-level effect of diverse team. To address this problem, we build a multi-level model, which integrates information processing perspective and social identity perspectives on dissimilarity and individual creativity. Multisource data were collected from 534 members and their leaders within in 79 work teams. The results indicated that perceived dissimilarity on visible, value, and informational were negatively related to individual creativity through employee information elaboration. Furthermore, an inclusive team climate played a moderating role: when inclusive climate was high, the indirect negative relationship with individual creativity was weaker for perceived value dissimilarity and informational dissimilarity. |
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