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...

Diversity among the members of a team of classiiers is deemed to be a key issue in classiier combination. However, measuring diversity is not straightforward because there is no generally accepted formal deenition. We have found and studied ten statistics which can measure diversity among binary classiier outputs (correct or incorrect vote for the class label): four averaged pairwise measures (...

This study examined the role of team identity on job satisfaction and job performance regarding the mediating role of the organizational identity. This paper is a correlation type using descriptive methods with applied goals. Our statistical population included all 420 male and female staffs of the telecommunication department in Eastern Azerbaijan province, Iran in 2014.Using stratified random...

Recent work has shown that diverse teams can outperform a uniform team made of copies of the best agent. However, there are fundamental questions that were never asked before. When should we use diverse or uniform teams? How does the performance change as the action space or the teams get larger? Hence, we present a new model of diversity, where we prove that the performance of a diverse team i...

Among the many technical and tactical aspects of the behavior of players, the goals are the most studied. The goal is the key to success for teams and its analysis in all matches of a major futsal tournament (World Cup) that allows multiple assessments. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of the first goal for the final result in the futsal match, identifying the team that scored th...

Many of the activities performed in rms are done by teams, where a common output is observed but outsiders cannot observe the individual contributions of each team member. This leads to the possibility of some of the members of the team free-riding on the contributions of others. Repeated interactions of a team can then potentially lead to cooperation among the members of the team under the cre...

In response to rapid change and fierce competition, creativity is an imperative factor to develop and implement innovation. Hence, most firms have pursued diverse strategies to promote individual and team creativity in the workplace. Shared leadership is a voluntarily, informally emergent structure beyond vertical leadership. A team is composed of individual members, and shared leadership and d...