Cultural Diversity and Team Performance: The Role of Team Member Goal Orientation
研究揭示了团队成员的目标导向如何调节文化多样性对团队绩效的影响，发现学习趋近导向高、绩效回避导向低时，文化多样性更能通过信息阐述提升团队绩效。
As workforce diversity increases, knowledge of factors influencing whether cultural diversity results in team performance benefits is of growing importance. Complementing and extending earlier research, we develop and test theory about how achievement setting readily activates team member goal orientations that influence the diversity-performance relationship. In two studies, we identify goal orientation as a moderator of the performance benefits of cultural diversity and team information elaboration as the underlying process. Cultural diversity is more positive for team performance when team members' learning approach orientation is high and performance avoidance orientation is low. This effect is exerted via team information elaboration.