A Meta-Analysis on Team Faultline: Category, Effect and Situation

Abstract

Abstract:

Demographic faultline is one of the most important concepts in the team field, and the outcomes of demographic faultline raise lots of attention. But by now, the researches about team faultline still have some shortages. For instance, the conclusions are in disputes, there is no research about outcomes of faultline by category and specific situation is not taken into consideration. In this paper, we divide the team faultline into social category faultline and information-based faultline. Then we divide the faultline effect into process effect and outcome effect. On the basis of different theoretical bases and function mechanism, we divide the process effect into two parts:social integration and cognitive integration. Referring to the outcome effect, we pay more attention the team performance. Based on this classification, we use the "input-process-outcome" paradigm to discuss the different effects on the faultline process (social integration and cognitive integration) and faultline outcome (especially team performance). In addition, we pick the industry type and team characteristic as the moderators to explore the influence on the faultline and its effects. This study uses Meta-analysis to integrate results on the 119 effect sizes from 38 independent papers. The results show that there is a difference on the outcomes between social category faultline and information-based faultline, and industry type and team characteristic play significant role between information-based faultline and team creativity. In the end, we discuss the outcomes from the theory contribution, practical application and the shortage of research, in addition to the future research directions.

Key words: social category faultline, information-based faultline, the effects of faultline, Meta-analysis

Chen Hui, Liang Qiaozhuan, Zhang Yue. A Meta-Analysis on Team Faultline: Category, Effect and Situation[J]. , 2019, 31(3): 116-130.

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