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Leading diversity: Towards a theory of functional leadership in diverse teams.
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The importance of leaders as diversity managers is widely acknowledged. However, a dynamic and comprehensive theory on the interplay between team diversity and team leadership is missing. We provide a review of the extant (scattered) research on the interplay between team diversity and team leadership, which reveals critical shortcomings in the current scholarly understanding. This calls for an integrative theoretical account of functional diversity leadership in teams. Here we outline such an integrative theory. We propose that functional diversity leadership requires (a) knowledge of the favorable and unfavorable processes that can be instigated by diversity, (b) mastery of task- and person-focused leadership behaviors necessary to address associated team needs, and (c) competencies to predict and/or diagnose team needs and to apply corresponding leadership behaviors to address those needs. We integrate findings of existing studies on the interplay between leadership and team diversity with insights from separate literatures on team diversity and (team) leadership. The resulting Leading Diversity model (LeaD) posits that effective leadership of diverse teams requires proactive as well as reactive attention to teams' needs in terms of informational versus intergroup processes and adequate management of these processes through task- versus person-focused leadership. LeaD offers new insights into specific competencies and actions that allow leaders to shape the influence of team diversity on team outcomes and, thereby, harvest the potential value in diversity. Organizations can capitalize on this model to promote optimal processes and performance in diverse teams. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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“Informed by CEM (Van Knippenberg et al., 2004), research in the last decade has examined a variety of moderators that can explain why diversity in some cases instigates intergroup bias and in other cases stimulates information elaboration (for an overview, see Guillaume, Dawson, Otaye-Ebede, Woods, & West, 2017).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diversity Effects: Two Overarching Processes
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“First, it is widely accepted that diversity can bring about favorable as well as unfavorable processes in teams (Milliken & Martins, 1996;Van Knippenberg, De Dreu, & Homan, 2004;Williams & O'Reilly, 1998), but scholarly understanding of what team leaders can do to promote the favorable effects and curtail the unfavorable effects of diversity is limited.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Abstract
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“However, a dynamic and comprehensive theory on the interplay between team diversity and team leadership is missing.”
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“The idiosyncratic approaches adopted in previous empirical work do not allow for generalized conclusions about the mechanisms and contingencies that govern effective leadership of team diversity.”
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“As a result, academics and practitioners alike continue to face the challenge of understanding why certain types of leadership facilitate the performance of diverse teams in some cases and frustrate performance in others (Homan & Greer, 2013;Klein, Knight, Ziegert, Lim, & Saltz, 2011;Nishii & Mayer, 2009;Stewart & Johnson, 2009).”
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“For instance, research on the role of transformational leadership behaviors-the most widely studied leadership behavior in diverse teams-demonstrates positive, negative as well as null effects for its moderating influence on the effects of team diversity (e.g., Kearney & Gebert, 2009;Kim, 2017;Scheuer, 2017).”
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“Our comprehensive review of this literature reveals inconsistent findings pertaining to the interplay of leadership and team diversity.”
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“Based on the current empirical findings, it remains unclear why the same leadership behaviors result in differential outcomes of team diversity.”
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“Nonetheless, previous research has not found consistent effects of surface-or deep-level diversity on team functioning (Bowers, Pharmer, & Salas, 2000;Van Dijk, Van Engen, & Van Knippenberg, 2012;Webber & Donahue, 2001).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Definitions and Scope of the Current Model
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“Fourth, there is a limited understanding of leaders' role as both proactive shapers of team processes resulting from team diversity and as reactive managers of the team process to team outcome relationship.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Directive
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“Within this focus on moderators of team diversity effects, the interest in the role of leaders in addressing diversity has been steadily increasing (e.g., Guillaume et al., 2014Guillaume et al., , 2017;;Nishii et al., 2018;Roberts, 2006).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diversity Effects: Two Overarching Processes
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The Climate for Inclusion section treats middle-management leadership as a factor shaping how diversity-management practices translate into an inclusive work-group climate. The Theoretical Implications section also calls for further research on leadership in diverse groups. These passages support the paper as an example of interest in leaders’ roles, but they do not establish that such interest has been steadily increasing; page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“We provide a review of the extant (scattered) research on the interplay between team diversity and team leadership, which reveals critical shortcomings in the current scholarly understanding.”
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“Second, there is a deficiency in the current literature with respect to understanding when and how which types of leader behaviors are instrumental in diverse teams.”
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“To date, transformational leadership is the most widely studied leadership style, but its moderating effects are inconsistent.”
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“First, there are no consistent effects of team diversity on team outcomes, which confirms the necessity of considering moderators.”
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“These dimensions were crossed with an even larger number of leadership behaviors and characteristics (see below).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Review of Research on the Interplay Between Diversity and Leadership
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“In terms of diversity, scholars have investigated, among other things, effects of diversity in demographic characteristics (e.g., nationality, ethnicity, gender, and age), personality (e.g., traits, values), and informational background (e.g., education, professional experience).”
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“Moreover, our review supports the general consensus that diversity effects are moderated, underlining the significance of identifying and understanding the role of key moderating factors, such as leadership.”
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“Our review reveals that authors have adopted idiosyncratic approaches in studying the intersection between diversity and leadership, focusing on a myriad diversity dimensions and over 30 different leadership behaviors and leader characteristics.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Review of Research on the Interplay Between Diversity and Leadership
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“(b) there is need for an integrative theory on how leadership moderates team diversity effects as similar leadership behaviors show inconsistent effects”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“(d) leaders have been examined both as proactive as well as reactive managers of team diversity.”
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“Our review of papers on the interactive relationship between team diversity and team leadership illustrated that (a) diversity main effects are rare and that leaders can shape diversity effects”
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“(c) both leadership behaviors and leadership competencies interact with team diversity, but it is unclear how these leadership concepts interrelate”
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“LeaD systematically explains how diversity-related processes give rise to specific needs at the team level for certain forms of leadership.”
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“We propose that functional diversity leadership requires (a) knowledge of the favorable and unfavorable processes that can be instigated by diversity, (b) mastery of task-and person-focused leadership behaviors necessary to address associated team needs, and (c) competencies to predict and/or diagnose team needs and to apply corresponding leadership behaviors to address those needs.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Abstract
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“The resulting Leading Diversity model (LeaD) posits that effective leadership of diverse teams requires proactive as well as reactive attention to teams' needs in terms of informational versus intergroup processes and adequate management of these processes through task-versus person-focused leadership.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Abstract
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“People tend to favor members of their ingroup over outgroup members, which may result in negative intrateam interactions, conflict, distrust, disliking, and limited communication between members of different subgroups (Brewer, 1979;Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diversity Effects: Two Overarching Processes
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“Third, leaders must be able to exhibit functional leadership behaviors (i.e., enact person-and task-focused leadership), and to flexibly adopt these behaviors to address distinct diversity-related processes.”
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“These processes are not mutually exclusive, but they tend to be negatively related, and at any given point in time one process will typically be more dominant and predict performance better than the other (Van Knippenberg et al., 2004).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diversity Effects: Two Overarching Processes
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“In short, as we elaborate below, LeaD specifies how leaders' diversity-related competencies shape their proactive and reactive behaviors vis-a `-vis diverse teams, and when and how the exhibited leadership behaviors improve or deteriorate the relationship between team diversity and team performance.”
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“Team leaders should allocate their time and energy in a way that maximizes the likelihood of enhancing the team's performance, that is, by adequately matching their behavior to the current or future needs of the team (Burke et al., 2006;Fiedler, 1965;Fleishman et al., 1991;Kerr, Schriesheim, Murphy, & Stogdill, 1974;McGrath, 1962;Osborn et al., 2002;Zaccaro et al., 2001).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Leading Team Diversity: Introducing LeaD
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“Using this matching approach, LeaD can explain inconsistent findings from previous research in which the same leadership behaviors had different effects (e.g., Homan & Greer, 2013;Klein et al., 2011), as these inconsistencies potentially arise from differential needs that were present in teams.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Leader Behaviors: Person-and Task-Focused Leadership
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“This means that leaders need to display certain leadership behaviors and avoid displaying others that are not useful or superfluous (Kerr & Jermier, 1978).”
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“Reactive diversity leadership can ameliorate dysfunctional and facilitate functional processes and, thereby, enhance team functioning and productivity.”
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“However, leaders may not always be able to proactively shape how diversity affects team processes, and may encounter (situational) factors that are outside of their control (McClean, Barnes, Courtright, & Johnson, 2019), such as the fact that categorization processes can occur automatically (Ito & Urland, 2003).”
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“Proactive diversity leadership can set the stage for effective processes in diverse teams by preventing categorization and concomitant intergroup bias and/or by inviting information elaboration.”
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“LeaD holds that proactive and reactive approaches to diversity management are important and that insights into the antecedents and contingencies of both types of leader diversity management are pertinent for a comprehensive outlook on diversity management.”
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“As such, the matching principle we propose is that leader behavior should counteract ineffective processes and maximize effective ones.”
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“We follow previous work showing that task-focused and personfocused leadership behaviors are distinct but not mutually exclusive-they can vary independently of one another.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Leader Behaviors: Person-and Task-Focused Leadership
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“However, even though leaders may have the potential to use both types of behavior, task-and personfocused behaviors do not have to be, and often cannot be, exhibited at the same time (Kerr et al., 1974).”
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“Thus, we propose that leadership behaviors can complement (in case of diverse teams that will be or are experiencing subgroup categorization) or supplement (in case of diverse teams that will be or are exhibiting information elaboration) the needs of diverse teams (see Cable & Edwards, 2004).”
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“Integrating the team diversity literature with the literature on team leadership, we propose that person-focused leadership matches the needs of diverse teams experiencing subgroup categorization processes, whereas task-focused leadership matches the needs of diverse teams experiencing information/decision-making processes (see Figure 2).”
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“Such diversity-related traits and characteristics shape leaders' social perceptiveness, which we argue facilitates their ability to reactively diagnose the dominant process in diverse teams.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diagnosing Diverse Team Needs: The Role of Leader Social Perceptiveness
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“Once intergroup bias or information elaboration has been predicted or diagnosed, leaders must show behaviors that address their team's future or current needs that arise from the respective process (e.g., resolving relational conflict in teams experiencing categorization and concomitant intergroup bias).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Functional Matching of Leadership Behaviors and Team Needs: The Role of Leader Behavioral Flexibility
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“Social perceptiveness makes leaders attentive and attuned to the possible motives, intentions, and sensitivities of team members, and helps them understand current relationships and situations within the team (Zaccaro et al., 1991).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diagnosing Diverse Team Needs: The Role of Leader Social Perceptiveness
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“Besides predicting the process that is likely to become dominant in diverse teams, it is important for leaders to be able to diagnose the dominant team process after it has emerged to reactively manage teams (see Zhao et al., 2019).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Diagnosing Diverse Team Needs: The Role of Leader Social Perceptiveness
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“Leaders with more behavioral flexibility are more adaptable in their behavioral responses, which helps them to effectively choose those responses that are required in specific situations.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Functional Matching of Leadership Behaviors and Team Needs: The Role of Leader Behavioral Flexibility
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“In summary, we argue that at any point in time diverse teams primarily exhibit (or display an increased tendency to exhibit) either intergroup bias or information elaboration, which creates different needs.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Leader Behaviors: Person-and Task-Focused Leadership
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“Moreover, in some cases, predicting the dominant process before it occurs can be difficult.”
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“this requires the leader to be aware of not only the impact of their own behaviors but also of anticipated and unanticipated changes in the environment.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“Information elaboration effectiveness may be hampered, for instance, when teams do not possess a shared mental model of the task (Klimoski & Mohammed, 1994), are not sufficiently motivated to think thoroughly about the task (De Dreu et al., 2008), or focus more on shared rather than unique information (Gigone & Hastie, 1993;Stasser & Titus, 2003).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Matching Leadership Behaviors to Team Needs
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“unanticipated events require social perceptiveness to diagnose the influence of these events on the dominant process within the team.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“we acknowledge that leaders can have direct (”
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“We argue that effective behavioral dynamism demands leaders to understand when the team's needs change and necessitates a different approach.”
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“Therefore, we propose that leaders should provide a supplementary match, by facilitating task-focused information exchange and processing.”
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“we lack a thorough understanding of the leader-related processes and practices that foster workplace inclusion and synergistic performance benefits.”
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“That is, we would propose that in the Klein et al. study (that was conducted in a relatively cooperative nonprofit setting), teams were less likely to experience subgroup categorization and intergroup bias, which would make person-focused leadership less relevant.”
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“First, through recategorization, leaders can bring together members of different subgroups under an overarching, common ingroup identity”
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“This individuation is likely to limit further subgroup activation because it makes the potential social categories that distinguish team members from one another irrelevant”
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“ers should proactively or reactively adapt their leadership approach to these two processes.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“That is, we propose that leader competencies are important in understanding the needs of diverse teams-rather than simply enacting their preferred style, leaders must actively determine when to display certain behaviors to be effective.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“First, task-focused leaders structure tasks and procedures and provide team members with a clear context for collaboration.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Matching Leadership Behaviors to Team Needs
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“Feedback can provide team members with more accurate representations of others as well as of task progress, which can result in a better use of informational diversity”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Matching Leadership Behaviors to Team Needs
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“Finally, task-focused leaders increase accountability of their team members by using rewards to distinguish the team's and individual team members' contributions”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Matching Leadership Behaviors to Team Needs
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“These competencies can be developed and learned over time by stimulating multicultural experiences or by training leaders' cultural and emotional intelligence”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“Whereas behavioral flexibility provides the leader with the ability to show such dynamic leadership behaviors, predicting and diagnosing are the necessary prerequisites for leaders to be able to display the adequate dynamic leadership behavior (relatively more person-or task-focused behaviors) depending on the diverse team's needs.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Temporal Dynamics
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“We propose that anticipated and unanticipated events as well as effective matching in itself require behavioral dynamism.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Temporal Dynamics
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“Antecedents such as these may contribute to a leader's behavioral flexibility in the management of diverse teams, which in turn allows leaders to effectively match their leadership behaviors to teams' diversityrelated needs.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Functional Matching of Leadership Behaviors and Team Needs: The Role of Leader Behavioral Flexibility
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“We argue that cognitive understanding of diversity effects in teams helps to predict changes in the future processes instigated by diversity as a result of anticipated events.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“Given the difficulties associated with predicting the future effects of diversity, reacting to the current state of the team is sometimes not only the most practical but also the only option.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“LeaD enhances such understanding by illuminating how leaders can bring members of diverse teams to work together effectively by focusing not only on eliminating intergroup bias, but also on actively stimulating the use of diversity so that every team member can contribute to the team.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“LeaD broadens the picture of leaders' role as diversity managers, suggesting that leaders should show behaviors that functionally match the dominant processes within the team (which can change over time).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“installing buddy systems to stimulate social interactions between demographic subgroups might be more effective for organizations characterized by subgroup categorization than for organizations characterized by information elaboration”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“incorporating 360-degree feedback systems could help leaders better understand the needs of different constituent groups, and as such stimulate cognitive understanding (Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm, & McKee, 2014).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm, & McKee, 2014 source
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“leaders can also be aided to obtain or further develop relevant behaviors or competencies by means of training, coaching, or experiences (Mathieu, Tannenbaum, & Salas, 1992;McClean et al., 2019;Tannenbaum, Smith-Jentsch, & Behson, 1998).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“This means that the insights from this article are relevant for researchers and practitioners in other social sciences, such as economics, sociology, sport psychology, political sciences, and education.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Conclusion
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- Rests on an assumption: Diversity is not limited to organizations but is also present in schools, neighborhoods, sport teams, and society as a whole.
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“by introducing important leader competencies, which make functional leadership more likely, our model speaks to the development of effective diversity leaders.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“provide specific training programs that, for instance, focus on the development of (a combination of) cognitive understanding, social perceptiveness, and behavioral flexibility rather than overly broad programs (cf.Anand & Winters, 2008;Guillaume, Dawson, Woods, Sacramento, & West, 2013).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“research based on LeaD can also inform sociological research on how to manage diversity in communities, understanding of the role of the government in dealing with diversity issues, and research on diversity in schools (Oortwijn, Homan, & Saab, 2010).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Conclusion
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“There still is a strong focus on a”
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“we move beyond leadership styles, which might be more stable and dispositional, and put trainable competencies and characteristics of leaders at the foreground of diversity management (cf.Tasselli, Kilduff, & Landis, 2018).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“LeaD offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the role of leaders in managing team diversity.”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Conclusion
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“organizations may benefit from incorporating these ideas into how they recruit, select, and develop leaders.”
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“In the recruitment and selection of leaders, organizations could focus on specific diversity-related traits and characteristics such as time spent abroad and diversity education during college (Bell, Connerley, & Cocchiara, 2009).”
§ Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams > Theoretical and Practical Implications
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“we suggest that considering the needs of the employees is crucial in understanding the conditions under which such interventions are more or less useful.”
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The authors state this as an assumption.
A team has a clear hierarchical structure, in which the leader is held responsible and accountable for its functioning.
“In line with Zaccaro and colleagues (2001), we presume that a team has a clear hierarchical structure, in which the leader is held responsible and accountable for its functioning.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The leader is motivated to understand the team's needs and manage team diversity.
“We assume that the leader is motivated to understand the team's needs and manage team diversity (see also Nishii, Khattab, Shemla, & Paluch, 2018).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Diversity is not limited to organizations but is also present in schools, neighborhoods, sport teams, and society as a whole.
“Diversity is not limited to organizations, but is also present in schools, neighborhoods, sport teams, and society as a whole.”
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Hassan study is described as both finding and not finding moderation
MinorThe review table says Hassan and colleagues found a significant interaction between transformational leadership and cognitive diversity. The subsequent summary lists the same study as evidence that transformational leadership had no impact on diversity's effects.
“The interaction between TFL and cognitive diversity was significant.”
“or have no impact on the effects of team diversity (Hassan, Bashir, Abrar, Baig, & Zubair, 2015;Kim, 2017;Zhang & Peterson, 2011).”
Intergroup bias is assigned two different matching strategies
MinorThe model consistently labels person-focused leadership for intergroup bias a complementary match, but its later interpretation of the Homan and Greer study calls that same pairing a supplementary match.
“when diverse teams are likely to experience or are experiencing intergroup bias, team leaders should try to prevent or suppress this process by stimulating or facilitating cohesion and manage relationship conflicts, which may be labeled "complementary matching."”
“teams may have experienced more subgroup categorization and intergroup bias, which made person-focused leadership a supplementary match to the team's needs.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Homan, A. C., Gündemir, S., Buengeler, C., & van Kleef, G. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Homan, Astrid C.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2020-10
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1101-1128
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W3001510674
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 224
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
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- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- team diversity, functional leadership, intergroup processes, leader competencies, diversity management
- MeSH terms
- Employment, Group Processes, Humans, Leadership, Psychological Theory, Cultural Diversity
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-11, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-11 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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