Abstract
Although the influence of diversity for organizations has attracted growing interests in recent years, it is still controversial. To mitigate the inconsistencies, this study focuses on cognitive diversity to unravel how and when it affects creativity. Drawing on the information/decision-making perspective, the resource-based view and the inclusion literature, we theorize and test a multi-level moderated mediation model of the relationship between team cognitive diversity and individual creativity. With a paired and time-lagged sample of 348 members and their 46 leaders from Chinese high-tech organizations, we find that team cognitive diversity is positively related to individual creativity; this positive relationship is mediated by team intellectual capital; and team inclusive climate moderates the indirect effect, such that the positive linkage between team cognitive diversity and individual creativity via team intellectual capital only occurs when team inclusive climate is high. These results deepen our understanding of the role of cognitive diversity, and shed light on the process through which, and the condition under which, cognitive diversity translates into creativity. We conclude by discussing the theoretical and managerial implications of our research.
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