Cultural Diversity and Team Creativity

Abstract

Culturally diverse teams have the potential for enhanced creativity relative to culturally homogeneous teams. We provide evidence that this can indeed occur, especially for tasks that are relevant to the cultural diversity represented in the team. To achieve a high level of creativity, culturally diverse groups need to employ effective cognitive processes and be highly motivated. Team experience, a positive team climate, effective handling of cognitive conflict, and multicultural experiences are related to enhanced performance in creative teams. Inter-team interactions provide a further opportunity to tap the creative potential of cultural diversity. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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