Team Emotion Diversity and Performance: The Moderating Role of Social Class Homogeneity

Abstract

Answering the call for research on the interplay between trait diversity and state diversity, we examine the interaction effect between emotion diversity and social class homogeneity on team information sharing and team performance. By integrating the multiple categorization arguments and categorization-elaboration model, we propose that social class homogeneity moderates the relationship between emotion diversity and information sharing in a way that emotion diversity hinders information sharing when social class homogeneity is high but elicits information sharing when social class homogeneity is low. In addition, information sharing has a stronger relationship with team performance when social class homogeneity is low. Our results support the propositions.