The interaction of inequality and diversity in front-line work teams
研究公共部门一线团队中绩效薪酬分配不平等与人口多样性如何交互影响成员离职，并分析这种影响是否因种族和性别而异。
A core managerial challenge confronting public sector leaders in the face of increasing workforce diversity is to ensure that individuals with different demographic backgrounds get along well so that they can work together successfully. We are interested in whether and how public managers can effectively address this challenge in the course of executing a common managerial function—distributing performance pay awards—that can induce perceptions of unfairness and seed potential conflict among a team’s members. More specifically, we address the following research questions: First, how do inequality in performance pay awards and team demographic diversity interact to affect team member turnover? Second, do the effects of inequality and diversity vary by team members’ race and sex? We use micro-level personnel data on front-line federal work teams to examine these questions.