Understanding How Group Faultlines Affect Individual, Group, and Organizational Outcomes.

As the workforce becomes increasingly diverse, researchers interested in groups and diversity have endeavored to understand the implication of various team compositions in work organizations. One major stream of inquiry examines group faultlines (i.e., hypothetical dividing lines that may split a group into subgroups based on one or more attributes) and their influence on team processes, emergent states, and outcomes. However, most studies...