Diversity and Conflict in Teams: a Faultline Model Perspective Sandeep Goyal
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Although the relationship between diversity and conflict in teams has received much attention in the past two decades, prior research has yielded inconsistent results. Drawing from the conceptual work on team faultlines, we present an integrated model of the relationships between the three types of diversity: separation, variety, and disparity and three types of conflict: task, relationship and process.
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