Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance
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Carton, AM; Cummings, JN; Evron, A
Published in: Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011
January 1, 2011
A longstanding controversy in research on work teams is whether teams are better off with a balanced configuration of subgroups in which there are no majorities and minorities, or an imbalanced configuration of subgroups in which majorities and minorities are both present. In a study of 326 work teams, we predict and find that the impact of majorities and minorities depends on the type of subgroup under consideration. Teams performed better when identity-based subgroups were imbalanced and knowledge-based subgroups were balanced.
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Carton, A. M., Cummings, J. N., & Evron, A. (2011). Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance. In Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011. https://doi.org/10.5464/AMBPP.2011.248.a
Carton, A. M., J. N. Cummings, and A. Evron. “Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance.” In Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011, 2011. https://doi.org/10.5464/AMBPP.2011.248.a.
Carton AM, Cummings JN, Evron A. Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance. In: Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening Balancing Transcending, AOM 2011. 2011.
Carton, A. M., et al. “Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance.” Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011, 2011. Scopus, doi:10.5464/AMBPP.2011.248.a.
Carton AM, Cummings JN, Evron A. Striking a balance: The impact of balanced versus imbalanced subgroups on work team performance. Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening Balancing Transcending, AOM 2011. 2011.
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Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011
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January 1, 2011