When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism
The current research examines the conditions under which cross‐cultural teams can realize their creative potential—a consequence of their cultural diversity. We propose that in more culturally diverse teams, team members are less open when communicating with each other, which impairs the team's...
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| author | Lu, Lin Li, Fuli Leung, Kwok Savani, Krishna Morris, Michael W. |
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| description | The current research examines the conditions under which cross‐cultural teams can realize their creative potential—a consequence of their cultural diversity. We propose that in more culturally diverse teams, team members are less open when communicating with each other, which impairs the team's ability to elaborate on the information contributed by different members, ultimately limiting team creativity. We further theorize that leaders' benevolent paternalism, a leadership style that is particularly prevalent in East Asian contexts, can reduce the negative consequence of intercultural diversity on intercultural communication openness. Based on multi-wave, multi-source data from 48 culturally diverse teams in China, we found that perceived intercultural diversity is negatively related to intercultural communication openness, which, in turn, is positively related to information elaboration, and ultimately, team creativity. Leader benevolent paternalism attenuates the negative relationship between intercultural diversity and intercultural communication openness. These findings enrich the literature on intercultural diversity by calling attention to communication‐related obstacles. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/855092023-05-19T06:44:41Z When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism Lu, Lin Li, Fuli Leung, Kwok Savani, Krishna Morris, Michael W. Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::Management Intercultural Communication Intercultural Diversity The current research examines the conditions under which cross‐cultural teams can realize their creative potential—a consequence of their cultural diversity. We propose that in more culturally diverse teams, team members are less open when communicating with each other, which impairs the team's ability to elaborate on the information contributed by different members, ultimately limiting team creativity. We further theorize that leaders' benevolent paternalism, a leadership style that is particularly prevalent in East Asian contexts, can reduce the negative consequence of intercultural diversity on intercultural communication openness. Based on multi-wave, multi-source data from 48 culturally diverse teams in China, we found that perceived intercultural diversity is negatively related to intercultural communication openness, which, in turn, is positively related to information elaboration, and ultimately, team creativity. Leader benevolent paternalism attenuates the negative relationship between intercultural diversity and intercultural communication openness. These findings enrich the literature on intercultural diversity by calling attention to communication‐related obstacles. Accepted version 2019-05-28T02:59:41Z 2019-12-06T16:05:11Z 2019-05-28T02:59:41Z 2019-12-06T16:05:11Z 2017 Journal Article Lu, L., Li, F., Leung, K., Savani, K., & Morris, M. W. (2018). When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(4), 402-415. doi:10.1002/job.2238 0894-3796 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85509 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48398 10.1002/job.2238 en Journal of Organizational Behavior This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Lu, L., Li, F., Leung, K., Savani, K., & Morris, M. W. (2018). When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(4), 402-415, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/job.2238. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. 52 p. application/pdf |
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| title | When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism |
| title_full | When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism |
| title_fullStr | When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism |
| title_full_unstemmed | When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism |
| title_short | When can culturally diverse teams be more creative? The role of leaders' benevolent paternalism |
| title_sort | when can culturally diverse teams be more creative the role of leaders benevolent paternalism |
| topic | DRNTU::Business::Management Intercultural Communication Intercultural Diversity |
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