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שהתפרסם לאחרונה בכתב העת היוקרתי:
Journal of
International Business Studies
ויספר אודות
"מאחורי הקלעים" של המאמר.
The positive role of global leaders in enhancing multicultural team
innovation
Alon Lisak, Miriam Erez, Yang Sui and Cynthia Lee
Abstract
This study contributes to the empirical research on leadership of
multicultural teams from the Positive Organizational Scholarship perspective
(POS). Following the information/decision-making processes perspective on team
cultural diversity, we examined the positive effect of leaders’ global identity,
on multicultural team innovation. We proposed that R&D, multicultural team leaders with high global identity foster team-shared
innovation goals and motivate team members to adopt communication inclusion
behavior, making sure that they all understand each other. Furthermore, we
propose that the effect of fostering team shared innovation goals on
communication inclusion will be stronger for teams with perceived high, rather
than low, cultural diversity and that team communication inclusion will positively
affect team innovation. Participants were 574 R&D multicultural team
members, their leaders, and their leaders’ managers in 82 co-located teams in a
Chinese branch of a large, German global organization. Using SEM analysis, our
findings supported our research model, demonstrating that multicultural team
leaders with high global identity leveraged cultural diversity to promote
innovative goals, which further enhanced team communication inclusion and its
positive impact on team innovation. We discuss the theoretical and practical
implications to the POS perspective on cultural diversity.
