When And How Diversity Benefits Teams: The Importance Of Team Members' Need For Cognition
研究了来自8个组织的83个团队，发现当团队认知需求高时，年龄多样性和教育专业多样性会促进任务相关信息阐述和集体认同，进而提升团队绩效。
In a study of 83 teams from eight organizations, we examined team need for cognition—the tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive endeavors—as a moderator of the relationships between both age diversity and educational specialization diversity, and elaboration of task-relevant information, collective team identification and, ultimately, team performance. Age and educational diversity were positively related to these outcomes when team need for cognition was high, rather than low. Both the elaboration of task-relevant information and collective team identification mediated a moderating effect of need for cognition on the relationship between both types of diversity and team performance.