Diversity in Harmonious vs. Obsessive Passion and Team Innovation: The Mediated Moderating Process

Abstract

Integrating the Affective Diversity Model (Barsade, Ward, Turner, & Sonnenfeld, 2000) and the theory on team behavioral integration (Hambrick, 1994), this research examines how the distribution of team members harmonious or obsessive passion for innovation is related to team innovation, and the boundary conditions for such relationships. In a survey among 226 teams with 226 leaders and 1,558 members, we found differential effects of team diversity in harmonious passion versus obsessive passion on team behavioral integration, which is consequently related to team innovation. Specially, when the mean level of harmonious passion for innovation is high, the inhibitory effect of visionary leadership on the negative relationship between team diversity in harmonious passion and behavioral integration is stronger than when it is low; visionary leadership weakens the negative relationship between team diversity in obsessive passion and behavioral integration whenever the mean level of obsessive passion is high or ...