Antecedents and Outcomes of Team Gender Diversity: The Boundary Condition of Managers’ Inclusiveness

Abstract

Integrating the diversity and inclusion literature, this study investigates the role of organizational inclusive staffing as the antecedent and team voice as the outcome of gender diversity in team contexts. In addition, managers’ inclusiveness and inclusive climate are considered potential moderators and mediators in our research framework. Multi-wave and multi-source data collected from research and development (R&D) teams, including 71 team leaders and 257 team members, revealed that team managers’ perceived organizational inclusive staffing is positively related to team gender diversity, and this relationship can be strengthened by top managers’ diversity-valuing behaviors. Moreover, team gender diversity is also found to facilitate team voice through team inclusive climate when team managers have higher levels of leader inclusiveness. Finally, we discuss valuable findings as well as theoretical and managerial implications of the study.