Team Innovation and Perceptions of Consideration
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Small Group Research
- Vol. 30 (6) , 730-750
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104649649903000604
Abstract
This article presents an authentic field study, which used an entropy-based formula to measure team diversity, of 50 teams. The data were collected in a division of a high-tech, Fortune 500 company. The results revealed that diversity (race, age, sex, and function) had no impact on quality of innovation, whereas sex and race had a negative and positive impact, respectively, on quantity of innovation. It was also found that race and sex negatively influenced perceptions of teaming consideration.Keywords
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