Expanding insights on the diversity climate-performance link: The role of workgroup discrimination and group size

Human Resource Management

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 379-402

  Boehm, Stephan A ^a   Dwertmann, David J G ^b   Kunze, Florian ^a   Michaelis, Björn ^c   Parks, Kizzy M ^d   Mcdonald, Daniel P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (Switzerland)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d K Parks Consulting Inc   (United States)

^e Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Diversity climate; Group size; Structural equation modeling; Workgroup performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899938070     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21589     Document Type: Article

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