The keys to effective teamwork in firms are (1) carefully designed team-formation policies that take into account what … level of diversity of skills, knowledge, and demographics is desirable and (2) balanced team-based incentives. Employers … need to choose policies that maximize the gains from teamwork through task coordination, problem solving, peer monitoring …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht …Research on the relationship between functional diversity and team performance has produced mixed findings. The present … study is designed to investigate possible curvilinear relationships between functional team diversity, trust, elaboration …