On the Use of the Coefficient of Variation as a Measure of Diversity

By A. Bedeian, K. Mossholder. 2000

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What's the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety, or disparity in organizations. (2007, background): “Given their conceptual and mathematical similarities, there is no particular advantage of either operationalization over the other, save for researcher familiarity with SD (see Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000).”
Personality and team performance: a meta‐analysis (2006, background): “Bedeian and Mossholder (2000) proposed to use mean and standard deviation scores to test for variability effects (cf. Mohammed &Angell, 2003).”
Perceived Diversity and Team Functioning (2013, methodology): “Withingroup standard deviations were used to measure diversity in age, team tenure, and organizational tenure of team members (Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000).”
Unlocking the Influence of Leadership Network Structures on Team Conflict and Viability (2009, methodology): “We chose not to use coefficient of variation as it would not be an appropriate operationalization when the sample includes varying team sizes (Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000).”
The effects of groups' variety and disparity on groups' cognitive complexity (2007, background): “The same arguments were provided by Bedeian and Mossholder (2000), who showed that the theoretical maximum for the coefficient of variation is obtained when all cases in a group have zero values except one.”
Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania (2009, background): “The coefficient of variation is one of the most commonly used statistics by organizational researchers for assessing the effects of group-based demographic diversity (Bedeian and Mossholder 2000).”
A Double-Edged Sword? Exploring the Curvilinear Relationship Between Organizational Tenure Diversity and Team Innovation: The Moderating Role of Team-Oriented HR Practices (2009, methodology): “We followed Bedeian and Mossholder’s (2000) suggestions and used the within-team SD to calculate both”
Size Does Matter: How Varying Group Sizes in a Sample Affect the Most Common Measures of Group Diversity (2009, background): “The coefficient of variation, which can also be used to operationalize diversity as disparity (Harrison & Klein, 2007), is defined as the standard deviation divided by the mean (Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000).”
Measuring Effective Teacher-Student Interactions From a Student Perspective (2015, background): “…examining both average levels of interactive quality and individual variation in experiences of quality of interactions within a classroom as well as subgroups within classrooms, such as gender, race/ethnicity, achievement status, and so on (Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000; Gonzalez-Roma et al., 2002).”
Person-Group Fit (2015, methodology): “We used within-group standard deviations (SDs) to reflect diversity in age (Bedeian & Mossholder, 2000).”