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Team member diversity

A recent study of 82 teams has demonstrated that “Early on the diverse teams showed less team orientation and more individual orientation than non-diverse teams, but through frequent feedback on task and interpersonal processing, the diverse teams caught up by the third time period. By the end, diverse teams maintained high team orientation but also allowed a reasonable extent of individual orientation. The diverse teams were beginning to utilize diversity to their advantage.” 

The article about the study is available through Science Direct database in the library (Watson, W. E., Johnson, L., Kumar, K., & Critelli, J. (1998). Process gain and process loss: Comparing interpersonal processes and performance of culturally diverse and non-diverse teams over time. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 22(4), 409-430.)

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Canberra University video case studies on Group Formation