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Professor Elizabeth George and Raja Chattopadhyay
Abstract: We argue that the emotions experienced in team meetings moderate the extent to which the level of national diversity in a team impacts team member identification with and contribution to that team, and subsequently member influence in decision making. Specifically, we argue that members experiencing higher levels of pleasant emotions (both low- and high-activation) and unpleasant low-activation emotions will evidence higher levels of identification with and contribution to more nationally diverse teams and the opposite for members who experience higher levels of unpleasant high-activation emotions. Individual identification with the team and contribution to the team are argued to have negative and positive impacts, respectively, on the extent to which focal team members are perceived as influential in decision making. We tested our hypotheses on 204 members of 48 teams engaged in an on-going MBA project.
Speaker: Elizabeth George is Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has held academic positions at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of Queensland and Western Michigan University as well as visiting positions in Duke University and the Indian School of Business. She received her PhD in Organisation Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor George’s research interests include nonstandard work arrangements and diversity. Her work has been published in journals such as (although not limited to) Academy of Management Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. She is a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Australian Journal of Management; associate editor for the Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Psychology Review. Elizabeth’s research has been recognised with various awards including the Academy of Management Review Best Paper Award (2007). She is currently Division Chair of the Academy of Management’s Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division.
Speaker: Prithviraj Chattopadhyay is a Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He previously held academic positions at the Australian Graduate School of Management (2001-2007), University of Queensland (1998-2001), Western Michigan University (1996-1998) and was a visiting scholar at Duke University in 2004. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Texas at Austin.
Prithviraj’s research interests include relational demography and diversity, managerial cognition, and employment externalisation and has been published in journals such as (although not limited to) Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Strategy and Management and Organizational Psychology Review.
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