The relational demography literature uses a variety of measures to describe how overt human differences in two entities, such as a group and its individual members, influence individual and collective outcomes (Tsui amp; Gutek, 1999). Although there has been much debate on the relative...

A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...