TY - GEN
T1 - A study of the current status of diversity faultlines in japanese work organizations
AU - Iwaasa, Takumi
AU - Shoji, Naoto
AU - Mizuno, Motoki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Managing people from different backgrounds has brought great benefits to work organizations. However, previous research has shown that diversity may have negative effects on performance because of diversity “faultlines”, hypothetical dividing lines that may split a group into subgroups. We conducted an empirical study on faultlines for the first time in Japan to investigate the present status of faultlines and to assess the degree to which workers perceive that (certain) attributes (e.g. nationality, ethnicity, age, personality, attitude) may have an impact on the emergence of faultlines in Japanese work organizations. It has been shown that task-related attributes such as specialty and ability/knowledge are great factors affecting faultlines, and that every participant perceives faultlines based on such attributes as specialty, personality, and attitude.
AB - Managing people from different backgrounds has brought great benefits to work organizations. However, previous research has shown that diversity may have negative effects on performance because of diversity “faultlines”, hypothetical dividing lines that may split a group into subgroups. We conducted an empirical study on faultlines for the first time in Japan to investigate the present status of faultlines and to assess the degree to which workers perceive that (certain) attributes (e.g. nationality, ethnicity, age, personality, attitude) may have an impact on the emergence of faultlines in Japanese work organizations. It has been shown that task-related attributes such as specialty and ability/knowledge are great factors affecting faultlines, and that every participant perceives faultlines based on such attributes as specialty, personality, and attitude.
KW - Demographic related attributes
KW - Diversity management
KW - Faultlines
KW - Task related attributes
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979650094
SN - 9783319420691
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 121
EP - 126
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education - Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society
A2 - Andre, Terence
A2 - Kantola, Jussi Ilari
A2 - Nazir, Salman
A2 - Barath, Tibor
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, AHFE 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -