Demographic Diversity and Faultlines¶
Lau, D. C., & Murnighan, J. K. (1998). Demographic Diversity and Faultlines: The Compositional Dynamics of Organizational Groups. Academy of Management Review, 23(2), 325-340.
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Mechanisms¶
- Cross-Functional Team
- Its failure mode is the faultline: a team that splits cleanly along a pre-existing identity line — legacy company, function, cohort — can calcify into two camps inside one org box, so the "cross-functional" team merely relocates the boundary rather than bridging it.
This sourceIntroduces group faultlines as aligned member attributes that divide a group into subgroups and can intensify subgroup conflict.
- Its failure mode is the faultline: a team that splits cleanly along a pre-existing identity line — legacy company, function, cohort — can calcify into two camps inside one org box, so the "cross-functional" team merely relocates the boundary rather than bridging it.
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