Title: Group Faultlines and Team Learning: How to Benefit from Different Perspectives
Abstract: The extent to which teams learn and how they perform partly depends
on their group composition. Although there is ample research on the
effects of diversity on team functioning and performance (for reviews
and meta-analyses, see Jackson, Joshi, & Erhardt, 2003; Mannix & Neale,
2005; Stewart, 2006; Webber & Donahue, 2001; Williams & O’Reilly,
1998), little research has been done on the effects of group composition
on team learning. Team learning is a relatively new concept that is starting to crystallize. Likewise, new theories of group composition have
been introduced, such as group faultlines (Lau & Murnighan, 1998).
Group faultlines are hypothetical dividing lines that split a group into
relative homogeneous subgroups based on the group members’ alignment along one or more attributes (adapted from Lau & Murnighan,
1998). Group faultlines are assumed to better explain the effects of
group composition on team functioning than traditional heterogeneity
theories of group composition (Bezrukova, Thatcher, & Jehn, in press).
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-12-14
Language: en
Type: article
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