Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification

Žnidaršič, Jana (author), Bogilović, Sabina (author), Černe, Matej (author), Kumar Gupta, Roopak (author)

Purpose – Besides diversity's positive effects, groups of "we" against "them" may form in accordance with social categorization theory, showing diversity's negative consequences. The authors aim to reconcile these results and examine their boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors studied 584 working professionals from five contexts (transnational companies dealing with multicultural interactions) and analyzed data using moderated-mediation procedures. Findings – A leader-promoting diversity climate plays a crucial role in moderating the negative relationship between perceived dissimilarity and group identification, which is mediated by value dissimilarity. Originality/value – This study mainly contributes by treating dissimilarity as a multicomponent construct, emphasizing the crucial differences embodied in various conceptualizations of dissimilarity - namely visible and value dissimilarity. For dissimilarity to result in group identification, the results highlight leaders' crucial role, beyond that of organizations and individuals, in stimulating a diversity-embracing climate in work units.

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, leadership, knowledge transfer, personnel, values, workplace diversity, leadership promotion of diversity, climate, group identification, social categorization
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business; FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 1018-1036
• Numbering: Vol. 42, no. 7
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-129082
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 0143-7739
• DOI: 10.1108/LODJ-09-2020-0418
• COBISS.SI-ID: 72025603
• Publication date in RUL: 26.08.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Leadership & organization development journal
• Shortened title: Leadersh. organ. dev. j.
• Publisher: Emerald
• ISSN: 0143-7739
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25856256

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetje, vodenje, prenos znanja, kadri, vrednote

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-2555
• Name: Oblikovanje organizacije v digitalni dobi

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0410
• Name: Digitalizacija kot gonilo trajnostnega razvoja posameznika, organizacij in družbe