Guo Weixiao, Gan Chenjing, Wang Duanxu
Business School, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 5;12:585849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.585849. eCollection 2021.
This study explores how the variability of the work environment shapes the impact of educational level diversity on team creativity. By adopting an integrative framework-"status characteristics-information elaboration" model as a theoretical lens, we propose and examine the moderating roles of task and personnel variability in educational level diversity-team creativity relationship. Utilizing multiple survey data collected from 90 knowledge work teams, the empirical results indicate that educational level diversity is more conducive to team creativity when teams are confronted with more variable tasks and when teams experience less frequent personnel changes. The findings of this study provide valuable insight on the conditions under which team diversity's information potential is more likely to realize and contribute to a more context-based understanding of the relationship between diversity and creativity.
本研究探讨工作环境的可变性如何塑造教育水平多样性对团队创造力的影响。通过采用一个综合框架——“地位特征-信息阐述”模型作为理论视角，我们提出并检验了任务和人员可变性在教育水平多样性与团队创造力关系中的调节作用。利用从90个知识工作团队收集的多组调查数据，实证结果表明，当团队面临更多可变任务且人员变动频率较低时，教育水平多样性更有利于团队创造力。本研究的结果为团队多样性的信息潜力更有可能实现的条件提供了有价值的见解，并有助于更基于情境地理解多样性与创造力之间的关系。
