Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification
Purpose
Besides diversity’s positive effects, groups of “we” against “them” may form in accordance with social categorization theory, showing diversity’s negative consequences. The authors aim to reconcile these results and examine their boundary conditions.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors studied 584 working professionals from five contexts (transnational companies dealing with multicultural interactions) and analyzed data using moderated-mediation procedures.
Findings
A leader-promoting diversity climate plays a crucial role in moderating the negative relationship between perceived dissimilarity and group identification, which is mediated by value dissimilarity.
Originality/value
This study mainly contributes by treating dissimilarity as a multicomponent construct, emphasizing the crucial differences embodied in various conceptualizations of dissimilarity – namely visible and value dissimilarity. For dissimilarity to result in group identification, the results highlight leaders’ crucial role, beyond that of organizations and individuals, in stimulating a diversity-embracing climate in work units.
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✨[SCIENCE SAYS] 📌Feeling overwhelmed by never-ending weekly job demands? 📊📈
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Full article on the topic by esteemed colleagues Arnold Bakker, Despoina Xanthopoulou & Evangelia Demerouti published in Applied Psychology available here: https://lnkd.in/ezMJgGCA
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✨[SCIENCE SAYS] 📌Fighting the weekly grind feeling like a burnt marshmallow?
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1) Chronic Burnout
Picture running on empty, motivation tanked, stress on speed dial. That's chronic burnout – where work-life balance goes MIA.
2) Weekly Job Demands
Adding fuel to the fire now, toss in your weekly job demands – deadlines, meetings, surprises. Chronic burnout turns this act into a circus on fire.
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Chronic burnout is the stealthy killer of productivity. It steals focus, creativity, and team spirit.
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Full article on the topic by esteemed colleagues Arnold Bakker, Despoina Xanthopoulou & Evangelia Demerouti published in Applied Psychology available here:
https://lnkd.in/ezMJgGCA
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