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Do you really want my input?: exploring the relationship between gender-ethnicity dissimilarity in teams and individual withholding of creativity
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001014
Abstract
The world marketplace is becoming increasingly competitive as a result of creative innovations and technologies that can quickly disrupt business practices, products, and services. At the same time, the diversity of individuals within most firms is also increasing, highlighting the need for organizations to ensure that all members of their diverse work teams are fully contributing to the creative process to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Diversity, however, often creates obstacles to the creative process. Natural biases against individuals who are dissimilar to others on a team can stifle those dissimilar individuals' motivation to contribute to the creative process as freely as those who are more similar to and accepted by the rest of the team. Using data gathered from a sample of 520 individuals who interact in teams, stratified across gender and four ethnicities, this research assesses the relationship between the dissimilarity of individuals to their fellow team members and that individual's withholding of creative ideas. The results of the study demonstrate that an individual's ethnic-gender dissimilarity to the rest of the team is positively related to that individual perceiving a disparity in the way the team treats and values their creative ideas. The perceived disparity in treatment is then positively correlated with the individual withholding creativity. However, empowering leadership moderates the relationship between an individual's dissimilarity to others in the team and that individual's perceived disparity in treatment of their ideas such that higher empowering leadership resulted in lower perceived disparity in treatment. This study also demonstrates partial support for the moderating effects of gender-ethnicity intersectional traits. Black women experience significantly higher perceptions of disparity in treatment of their creative ideas, and Black men exhibit significantly less withholding of creativity even when there is disparity in the way the team receives those ideas.
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Details
- Title
- Do you really want my input?
- Creators
- Mike Horton
- Contributors
- Lauren D'Innocenzo (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- xii, 141 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Bennett S. LeBow College of Business; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991014695238204721