Abstract
We investigate how activated team faultlines represent an informal sensemaking structure through which teammates interpret their social reality. Constructed from intersubgroup comparisons, activate...
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We investigate how activated team faultlines represent an informal sensemaking structure through which teammates interpret their social reality
We explore the effects of team structure clarity in providing certainty or legitimacy around status and structure, ameliorating the negative effect of activated faultlines on team justice climate
We argue that when team faultlines are activated, they represent an informal sensemaking structure with important implications for fairness perceptions and status conflict; this view of team faultlines helps reconcile some of the extant disparate findings in 6 the field
Summary
We investigate how activated team faultlines represent an informal sensemaking structure through which teammates interpret their social reality. We found that team structure clarity reduced activated faultlines negative effect on team justice climate. The results highlight the value of using team faultlines, the social identity approach, and justice theories to understand how diverse teams interpret their social reality that influences their performance. Our research provides practical guidance to managers in building clear structures that minimize the harmful effects of activated faultlines on justice perceptions and team performance. Organizational scholars have redoubled their efforts to accurately assess the effects of diversity; rather than focus on the dispersion of single attributes, researchers investigate more complex compositional patterns such as dormant team faultlines (hypothetical dividing lines that create subgroups based on the alignment of multiple attributes; Lau & Murnighan, 1998). We argue that when team faultlines are activated, they represent an informal sensemaking structure with important implications for fairness perceptions and status conflict; this view of team faultlines helps reconcile some of the extant disparate findings in 6 the field
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