What's the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety, or disparity in organizations.

By David A. Harrison, Katherine J Klein. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Managerial Gender Diversity and Firm Performance (2016, positive): “As gender represents a dichotomous variable, the Blau index provides us a proxy to capture both variety and separation-related gender effects (Harrison & Klein, 2007).”
Establishing a Diversity Program is Not Enough: Exploring the Determinants of Diversity Climate (2010, background): “However, this index has been criticized because it only represents overall heterogeneity, versus the relative configurations of race distribution in the focal group (Harrison and Klein 2007).”
Diversity in goal orientation, team reflexivity, and team performance (2011, methodology): “To determine diversity in learning and performance orientation within teams, we calculated the standard deviations of the learning and performance orientation scores of all team members within each team (Harrison & Klein, 2007).”
Facing Differences With an Open Mind: Openness to Experience, Salience of Intragroup Differences, and Performance of Diverse Work Groups (2008, positive): “The same calculation of team performance was used by Hollenbeck et al. (2002) and Moon et al. (2004). Average performance across teams was 41,400.”
Defying conventional wisdom: A meta-analytical examination of the differences between demographic and job-related diversity relationships with performance (2012, background): “Greater diversity typically means a greater representation of minorities on the team (e.g., greater ethnic diversity mostly means less white Caucasians, not more; cf. Harrison & Klein, 2007).”
Diversity and creativity in cross-national teams: The role of team knowledge sharing and inclusive climate (2016, background): “…have investigate the influence of team diversity, both surface and deep-level diversity, on team creativity (Harrison et al., 2002; Harrison & Klein, 2007; van Knippenberg & Schippers, 2007; Hoever, van Knippenberg, van Ginkel, & Barkema, 2012; Shin et al., 2012), but the process of…”
Why Organizational and Community Diversity Matter: Representativeness and the Emergence of Incivility and Organizational Performance (2011, methodology): “For that reason we use these five categories to calculate organizational diversity for each hospital using Blau s index, as a measure of variety (Harrison & Klein, 2007).”
Cultural Diversity and Team Performance: The Role of Team Member Goal Orientation (2013, background): “The recommended index for calculating the diversity of categorical variables is Blau’s index of heterogeneity (Blau, 1977; Harrison & Klein, 2007): 1 (Pi)2, where Pi is the proportion of a team’s members in the ith category.”
The dysfunctions of power in teams: A review and emergent conflict perspective (2017, background): “…how individual traits and properties, such as personality or values, can be compiled to the team level (Bliese, Chan, & Ployhart, 2007; Chan, 1998; Harrison & Klein, 2007; Stewart et al., 2005), those researching power at the team level of analysis have investigated different ways to…”
Job and team design: Toward a more integrative conceptualization of work design (2008, background): “Harrison and Klein (2007) argue that within-team diversity can be conceptualized as one of three types: separation, variety, and disparity.”
Surface- and deep-level dissimilarity effects on social integration and individual effectiveness related outcomes in work groups: a meta-analytic integration (2012, background): “…2005; Milliken & Martins, 1996; van Knippenberg & Schippers, 2007; Williams & O'Reilly, 1998), a couple of conceptual papers (e.g., Brickson, 2000; Harrison & Klein, 2007; Lau & Murnighan, 1998; Lawrence, 1997; van Knippenberg, De Dreu, & Homan, 2004), and various meta-analyses (e.g., Bell, 2007;…”
Creativity in scientific teams: : Unpacking novelty and impact (2015, background): “In particular, increasing size may be associated with increasing diversity (Fiore, 2008; Harrison and Klein, 2007).”