Assessing the Impact of Nonresponse on Work Group Diversity Effects
通过计算机模拟，研究了员工调查中无回应性如何扭曲工作组多样性分数，并削弱其与结果变量的相关性，对使用调查数据研究多样性的学者有警示作用。
Research examining relations between work group diversity and outcome measures often relies on diversity scores that are calculated on the basis of individual responses to organizational surveys. When employees fail to respond to a survey, however, the resultant diversity score representing their group will be somewhat distorted. The authors conducted a series of computer simulations to examine the extent to which correlations between group diversity scores (derived from continuous or categorical variables) and outcome variables were attenuated by various forms of random and systematic participant nonresponse. Results indicate that random nonresponse, and many forms of systematic nonresponse, substantially attenuate mean observed correlations.