Abstract The concept of implicit organizational timetables suggests that leaders are expected to be older than their followers. However, increased age diversity in the workforce has led situations which this is not case. Expanding on core tenets leader categorization theory, present study establishes an age-prototypical team characterized by relative followers and explores how prototypicality i...

By bringing team members with different cultural backgrounds together, teams in international business can benefit from diversity and reach higher levels of performance. Cultural also brings challenges, however, research has identified the need to consider moderating influences diversity–performance relationship. Team leadership should be particularly important this respect drawing on a theoret...