Unity Through Diversity: Value-in-Diversity Beliefs, Work Group Diversity, and Group Identification

Group Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 207-222

  van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^b   Platow, Michael J ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; identification; self categorization; social identity; value in diversity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TEAMWORK; TRAINING;

EID: 36049026331     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.11.3.207     Document Type: Article

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