Location-level links between diversity and innovative climate depend on national power distance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van der Vegt, GS; Van de Vliert, E; Huang, X
• 署名单位: University of Groningen; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/20159736
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1171-1182
• 关键词: TOP MANAGEMENT; performance; work; team; ORGANIZATIONS; Heterogeneity; creativity; demography; CONFLICT; QUALITY

摘要

In this study, we examined the relationship between the demographic diversity and innovative climates of 248 organizational locations of a multinational company in 24 countries. Supporting a status characteristics perspective, multilevel analyses revealed that diversity in the more task-oriented demographic attributes of organizational tenure and functional background was negatively related to these locations' innovative climates in high-power-distance countries but positively related to the locations' innovative climate in low-power-distance countries. These interactive effects were not found for the more relations-oriented demographic attributes of age and gender.