It's About the Process, Not the Product: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationships Between Team Demographic Diversity and Team Processes

dc.contributor.advisorSalas, Eduardoen_US
dc.creatorTraylor, Allison Marieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T20:55:59Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-06-01T05:01:09Zen_US
dc.date.created2019-12en_US
dc.date.issued2019-12-04en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2019en_US
dc.date.updated2019-12-04T20:55:59Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThe past half-century has been characterized by a rise in teamwork that has aligned with shifting demographic characteristics reflecting the world’s aging and increasingly diverse population. As a result, organizations and researchers alike have shifted their attention toward understanding the conditions under which team demographic diversity can facilitate or hinder team performance. In response to recent calls to examine the emergent processes and contextual factors impacting the team diversity-performance relationship, I conducted a meta-analytic investigation of the team diversity-process relationship that emphasizes the role of context in shaping these effects. This research contributes to the broader literature on team demographic diversity in several important ways. First, it integrates theory on team diversity through a framework emphasizing the roles of context, information elaboration, and social categorization to organize previous investigations of team processes. Second, it integrates research on gender, age, and racial diversity with research on nationality diversity, areas which have previously been studied separately. Third, it tests—and finds support for—the notion that team diversity may differentially impact team processes, indicating that the overall effect of team diversity on performance may be washed out by the differential effects of diversity on interpersonal and action processes. Finally, it provides a more updated state of the science of team demographic diversity, generating a number of clear directions for future inquiry.en_US
dc.embargo.terms2020-06-01en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.citationTraylor, Allison Marie. "It's About the Process, Not the Product: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationships Between Team Demographic Diversity and Team Processes." (2019) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107759">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107759</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/107759en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectteamworken_US
dc.subjectdiversityen_US
dc.subjectmeta-analysisen_US
dc.titleIt's About the Process, Not the Product: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationships Between Team Demographic Diversity and Team Processesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPsychologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US
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