The romance of working together: Benefits of gender diversity on group performance in China

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1487-1508

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Hou, LiWen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

gender diversity; group identification; group performance; relationship conflict; task conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868310925     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712453931     Document Type: Article

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