• 품질경영학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.289-300
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• 2013

Purpose: The results of prior studies investigating main effects between diversity and team performance are neither clear nor consistent. This study seeks to provide more evidence for a direct link between these two. The present study also attempts to close a gap in the literature by examining conflict as a moderator of the relationship between diversity and team performance. Methods: As suggested by Williams and O'Reilly(1998), this study examines the effects of perception levels of three specific types of diversity (social category diversity, value diversity, and informational diversity) and two contextual moderators (task conflict and relationship conflict) on team performance. Results: The results show that perception levels of all three types of diversity are significantly related to team performance in the current sample of 313. Results also indicate that relationship conflict significantly interacted with the perception levels of diversity in relating to team performance. Results for task conflict, however, fails to support the hypothesis. Conclusion: The results suggest that the effects of diversity on team functioning depend on how diversity is perceived by team members, rather than actual diversity seen by team members. Theoretical and practical implications are reviewed, and limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are addressed.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2015

This study attempts to investigate the effect of team diversity on individual creativity and team members' creative activities such as exploration and exploitation. We have garnered 40 team data from 249 respondents who have been participating in the team learning activities during semester in a private university. They were asked by instructor to show their creativity, and exploration and exploitation activities. The 40 teams were made up of team diversity factors such as study hour and leisure activity. We used a multilevel analysis to analyze the effects of team diversity factors on team member's creativity, and exploration and exploitation. Results showed that in general, team diversity factors like study hour and leisure activities have significant effects on the individual creativity, and exploration and exploitation. Practical implications represent that teams need to be organized considering the team diversity factors in order to improve team member's creativity, and their exploration and exploitation activities.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.163-171
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• 2016

팀 구성원의 다양성이 팀 성과에 미치는 영향이 다양하기 때문에 기업은 팀 다양성의 효과 및 다양성 관리방법에 대해 관심을 가져야 한다. 즉, 기업은 다양성의 결과뿐만 아니라 다양성의 긍부정의 효과를 극대화 혹은 최소화 할 수 있는 방법에 대해 고민해봐야 한다. 본 연구의 주요 목적은 팀 구성원의 가치 다양성이 팀 정체성과 팀 내 갈등에 미치는 긍정과 부정의 영향을 살펴보고, 이들 긍부정의 영향관계에서 포용적 조직 분위기가 조절역할을 하는지 살펴보는 것이다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위해 선행연구 검토를 통해 4개의 가설을 개발하고 개발된 가설은 단순 회귀분석과 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 검증하였다. 분석결과 가치 유사성은 팀 정제성에 정(+)의 영향, 그리고 팀 내 갈등에는 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 포용적 조직 분위기가 조절역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 실증 분석결과를 바탕으로 실무적 시사점과 연구의 한계점 및 미래 연구 방향 등을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.101-123
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• 2011

Considering how an organization is timely competitive for survival in the rapidly changing environment of today, it is more important to get new information and knowledge continuously by teams. However team system provides organization with opportunities and, at the same time, is provoked into conflict by the diversity of team members. This study examines the effect of team diversity on knowledge creation and investigates the influence of absorptive capacity and conflict as mediators. The sample population consisted of officials who work in teams at two business corporations that have successfully achieved knowledge creation. The result presents team diversity serves as an effective factor for absorptive capacity and absorptive capacity also serves as an effective factor for knowledge creation. In contrast, team diversity brings team members into conflict and conflict has a negative effect on knowledge creation. Another significant finding of this research is the fact that a positive effect of absorptive capacity on knowledge creation is greater than a negative effect of conflict on it. It clearly demonstrates that team diversity can be an important determinant of knowledge creation if an organization tries to reduce team member's conflict.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2015

This study examined the moderating effect of engineering design self-efficacy on the relationship between cognitive team diversity and team creativity. For this study, 377 mechanical engineering students in engineering design classes were included in the analysis. The results showed that both cognitive team diversity and engineering design self-efficacy were positively correlated with team creativity. The analysis of moderating effect indicated that engineering design self-efficacy further reinforced the positive relationship between cognitive team diversity and team creativity. Finally, implications and limitations of this study were explored.

• 경영과학
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.111-124
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• 2015

In the management literature, it has been widely accepted among both researchers and practitioners that the level of team creativity is significantly related to the organizational performance. Besides, researchers posited with confidence that team diversity and task difficulty would affect team creativity through team members' activities of exploration and exploitation. However, empirical approaches to proving this belief suffered from lack of real data and proper methods as well. To tackle the research void like this, we propose a multi-agent simulation (MAS) mechanism. By adopting a set of parameters which validity were proven in the related literature, we conducted a series of experiments in the environment of the MAS platform named NetLogo. There sults suggest that managers can differentiate team diversity strategies according to task difficulty. In the case of a difficult task, managers need to increase team diversity so that their teams can maximize team creativity through rigorous exploration and exploitation. It is desirable to maintain an average level of team diversity when performing an easy task.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.22-45
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• 2017

The successful management of software (SW) projects is a continuous concern to managers, which is attributed to the contradictory demands that most projects are facing; meeting user requirements within time and budget limit while flexibly dealing risks during the progress of the projects. The present study asserts project performance and risk mitigation are not tradeoff but to be achieved simultaneously, which is called SW project ambidexterity. Drawing on the literature on organizational behavior, hypotheses are developed speculating the relation among project performance, risk mitigation, team collective improvisation, team behavioral integration, and team diversity. Using empirical data collected from 102 SW project teams of 507 team members in South Korea, empirical analysis indicates team collective improvisation is a significant antecedent to SW project ambidexterity, playing a pivotal role to balance the contradictory demands. Furthermore, team behavioral integration positively influences the degree of team collective improvisation, and the magnitude of the relation is partially contingent on the team members' age and major diversity. The present study advances theory by providing a context specific explanation about the SW project ambidexterity and its precedents.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.913-936
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• 2013

다양성의 중요성이 강조되면서 최근의 연구들은 다양성과 성과간의 직접효과에 대한 분석에서 상황적 요인의 효과를 분석하는 데 연구의 초점을 맞추고 있다. 본 연구에서는 다양성과 성과간의 관계를 보다 명확하게 파악하기 위해서 혁신적 문제해결 스타일과 상호의존성(과업, 목표, 결과)을 상황요인으로 제시한 후 이들 변수들의 조절효과를 분석하였다. R&D 연구소의 75개 프로젝트 팀을 대상으로 실증 분석한 결과 팀원들이 혁신적 문제해결 스타일을 가져갈 수록 다양성과 프로젝트 성과간의 긍정적 관계는 더욱 높아졌다. 또한 세 가지 유형의 상호의존성도 다양성과 프로젝트 성과간의 관계를 긍정적으로 조절하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 연구결과에 대한 시사점과 향후 연구방향에 대하여 논의하였다.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.141-167
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to present the model of performance in new product R&D project team, from the perspective of the problem solving. The quality and commitment of the problem solutions in R&D project team depend on the team's cognitive diversity and affective acceptance. The higher cognitive diversity is, the higher quality of solutions is. And more affective acceptance is, more commitment to the problem solving is. The environmental maturity of team, and quality and commitment of problem solutions in R&D project teams are supposed to relate to the performance of research and development.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.75-93
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• 2016

This study aims at analyzing the relationship between team characteristic and innovation performance. The mediating effect of creative climate on the team characteristic and innovation performance is also measured. Based upon literature review, individual creative characteristics, team diversity, team cohesion, task characteristics are presented as antecedents of team characteristic. Creative climate affects the creative behavior and innovative performance. Creative climate is measured as the Team Climate Inventory (TCI) proposed by Anderson & West (1998) including goal, participative-autonomy and innovative-support. Data were collected from 186 survey responses (54 Teams) out of total 462 (69 teams) from the R&D department of a major ICT firm in Korea. Empirical results show the diversity, cohesion, job characteristic, individual creative characteristic have a positive effect on the creative climate and innovation performance. The participative-autonomy climate factor appears to mediate the relationship between team characteristic (diversity, cohesion, job and individual characteristics) and innovation performance. However, the mediating effects of goals and innovative-support factors were not significant statistically. It was confirmed that the organization can contribute to improve the team innovation performance by facilitating a autonomy and participative climate as well as fostering the team characteristic.