Melting pot or tossed salad? Implications for designing effective multicultural workgroups

Anne Susann Bachmann
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Anne Susann Bachmann: Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

Management International Review, 2006, vol. 46, issue 6, No 5, 748 pages

Abstract: Abstract Abstract and Key Results The literature on the functioning and effectiveness of diversity-based workgroups tends to take the single perspective of exploring the effects of cultural or demographic or functional diversity on workgroup performance. This conceptual article develops a coupling framework for the analysis of the functioning of multicultural workgroups by integrating several lines of research and by reformulating their traditional conceptualization, outlining implications for their design. Applying the concept of loosely coupled systems to multicultural workgroup functioning provides the conceptual link necessary for a solution of the dilemma of multicultural workgroups.

Keywords: Workgroups; Multiculturality; Cultural Diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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