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This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become a foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This paper argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to con...

This study examines the moderating effect of group cohesiveness both at the individual and at the group level. In the individual-level study, moderating effect of group cohesiveness was tested with 249 employees from a Korean manufacturing company. Group cohesiveness turned out to have a negative moderating effect on the individual competency-performance relationship, and this finding suggests ...

Social cohesion can be viewed in terms of common projects and networks of social relations that characterize families, communities and society. In the past decades, the basis for family cohesion has shifted from organic to mechanical or from breadwinner to collaborative model. As in many Western countries, data on family change in Canada point to a greater flexibility in the entry and exit from...