How Homogeneous Should a Team Be?
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Should an organization hire people with similar backgrounds or with di®erent backgrounds? We formulate this question within the framework of team theory. The team manager must ̄ll n jobs and can choose the type of each of the agents she hires. The type of an agent determines his information structure and his market wage. We show that if the team's payo® function is supermodular, then the manager ̄nds it optimal to hire n agents of the same type. On the other hand, if the payo® function is submodular, and if two additional assumptions hold, the manager hires agents of at least two di®erent types. These results do not rely on restrictions on the way uncertainty is modeled or on the feasible set of agent types.
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