When member homogeneity is needed in work teams - A meta-analysis

    Authors

    C. A. Bowers; J. A. Pharmer;E. Salas

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Small Group Res.

    Keywords

    GROUP-PERFORMANCE; SEX-ROLES; TOP TEAM; LEADERSHIP; PERCEPTIONS; IMPACT; ACHIEVEMENT; GENDER; Psychology, Applied; Management; Psychology, Social

    Abstract

    A meta-analytic integration of 57 effect sizes from 13 studies(567 teams, 2,258 participants) was performed to determine if groups that are homogeneous with respect to gender ability level, and personality achieve higher levels of performance than reams that are heterogeneous on these attributes. Although individual studies often show marked differences between homogeneous and heterogeneous groups, the results of this integration show the combined effect sizes of these studies to be small, though not significant, in favor of heterogeneous groups. Ir appears that the significant effects found in many of the included studies can be attributed to the type and difficulty of the task used in the investigation. Implications for team construction am discussed.

    Journal Title

    Small Group Research

    Volume

    31

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2000

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    305

    Last Page

    327

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000087463800003

    ISSN

    1046-4964

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