articleJournal of Applied PsychologyJan 1, 2009Closed access

Managing diversity and enhancing team outcomes: The promise of transformational leadership.

Constructor University · Korea University

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Abstract

In a sample of 62 research and development (R&D) teams, the authors examined transformational leadership as a moderator of the relationship of age, nationality, and educational background diversity with team outcomes. When levels of transformational leadership were high, nationality and educational diversity were positively related to team leaders' longitudinal ratings of team performance. These relationships were nonsignificant when transformational leadership was low. Age diversity was not related to team performance when transformational leadership was high, and it was negatively related to team performance when transformational leadership was low. Two mediated moderation effects help explain these…

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  • Transformational leadership
  • Psychology
  • Moderation
  • PsycINFO
  • Diversity (politics)
  • Social psychology
  • Shared leadership
  • Multilevel model
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