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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | (When) does diversity affect leaders adversely? Multi-level effects of culture and cohesion |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Diversity Workshop |
| Event Type | workshop |
| Event Location | Constance, Germany |
| Event Start Date | July 15 - 2016 |
| Event End Date | July 15 - 2016 |
| Abstract Text | Team cultural diversity has important implications for teams, but also for leaders via team prototypicality (i.e., comprising attributes characteristic of the follower group) and leader prototypicality (i.e., comprising attributes characteristic of “leaders”), which are key drivers of leadership effectiveness. Based on the social identity model of organizational leadership, I operationalize culture with a more nuanced measure (i.e., native language) to examine team cultural diversity’s effects on perceptions of leader prototypicality, contingent on leader culture (i.e., team-leader language dissimilarity). Furthermore, strategy recommendations for leaders of diverse teams typically include reinforcing group salience to override individual differences, yet this technique may counterintuitively highlight cultural differences between group members and leaders, further reducing leaders’ prototypicality of the group and as a leader (respectively). I examine these propositions in a multi-source, multi-wave, and multi-level randomized field experiment of 35 newly created teams of followers (N = 462) with leaders (N = 35). As expected, irrespective of follower culture, with increasing objective team-leader language dissimilarity, followers rate leaders as less prototypical leaders and leaders rate themselves as less prototypical of the group, effects that are especially pronounced in more cohesive groups. Discussion includes theoretical and practical implications, with a focus on strategies for leading diverse teams. |
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