Faultlines Within and Outside Group Boundaries and Their Cross-Level Effects

Group faultlines refer to hypothetical dividing lines that split a group into subgroups based on the alignment of multiple individual attributes across group members (adapted from Lau & Murnighan, 1998). Due to this conceptualization of faultlines as a group-level construct, the majority of faultline research focuses on the impact of group faultlines on group processes (such as cohesion or conflict; Chiu & Staples, 2013; Schölmerich, Schermuly,...