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RMIT University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-03-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 26-07-2021
DOI: 10.1108/CCSM-08-2020-0172
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between cultural ersity in teams and team members' in idual well-being. The paper further explores the relationship between social resources, social stressors, team member well-being and the influence of the type of team in iduals are working in (mono- vs. multicultural), gender and in idualism/collectivism (IC). Using data collected via an online survey, the authors analyzed 659 responses from in iduals working in mono- and multicultural work teams. A theoretical model explaining the influence of social stressors, social resources, and social and demographic variables was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that members of multicultural work teams perceive significantly more social stressors and lower levels of social resources than do members of monocultural teams. Higher levels of social stressors suggest decreased psychological well-being, while social resources have an indirect positive effect on psychological well-being. Furthermore, personal characteristics, namely, in idualism and gender, have direct effects on the perception of social stressors and indirect effects on team member well-being. This paper demonstrates that cultural ersity in teams can influence the social stressors and resources that in idual team members experience. Moreover, the pivotal role of social resources in the facilitation of team member well-being is highlighted primarily through its direct effect on social stressors and its concomitant indirect effect on well-being.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14705958231188807
Abstract: It is empirically found that cultural ersity can influence group dynamics and social resources and demands. This study aims to explore if and how the effects of social demands and resources vary across teams of different levels of cultural ersity in the form of team compositions. This study proposes a research model to examine the associations between social demands (i.e., a lack of trust and accountability, misunderstanding and disagreement), social resources (i.e., managerial support and a positive team environment) and wellbeing impairments and empirically tests the model across three different team compositions. The s le is composed of 1049 participants who completed an online survey, working in either monocultural teams (i.e., one nationality only), bicultural teams (i.e., two nationalities), or multicultural teams (i.e., three or more nationalities). Multigroup structural equation modelling (SEM) was adopted to analyze the data and to perform cross-group comparison. The results show that the cultural composition of the team does influence the relationship between social demands and in idual team members’ wellbeing. A lack of trust and accountability was found to be a significant predictor of wellbeing impairments in only mono- and bicultural teams, not in multicultural teams. Misunderstanding and disagreement was found to be positively associated with wellbeing impairments only in multicultural work teams, not in bi- or monocultural teams. No differences were found when comparing the effects of social resources on in idual team members’ wellbeing between the three different types of teams.
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2019
Publisher: RMIT University
Date: 2019
Location: Germany
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 2019
Funder: RMIT University
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