The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
نویسندگان
چکیده
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in management teams on their business performance. As part of their curriculum, undergraduate students in business studies start up a team venture. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students, conditional on their gender, randomly to teams. We find that management teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated teams in terms of sales, profits and earnings per share. Our results indicate that this is due to more intensive monitoring and more equalized learning in mixed teams than in homoge-
منابع مشابه
Gender Diversity in Management Positions and Organizational Performance: A Review of Literature
In this term paper, diversity in management positions and organizational performance is analyzed using gender diversity as a mediating role. The analysis is done based on the review of related literature. An organization’s success and competitiveness depends upon its ability to embrace diversity and realize the benefits. The success and failure of an organization is also linked with its leaders...
متن کاملEthnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherla...
متن کاملThe Impact of Motivation on the Work Performance of Health Workers (Korle Bu Teaching Hospital): Evidence from Ghana
Background: Motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most Ghanaian hospitals. In view of this, Ghana’s Ministry of Health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. Objective: The focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating ...
متن کاملThe Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Company Performance
This study aims to examine the impact of diversity among the members of top management team (TMT) on financial performance of manufacturing firms. Diversity components of the top management team were divided into two categories of managerial background variables (age, gender, background, education, work skills), and managerial areas (industrial and international). In addition, financial perform...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- Management Science
دوره 59 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013