Justin Fontenot, Michael Hebert, Hung-Chu Lin, Arun K Kulshreshth
Examining the Perceptions Among Undergraduate Nursing Students Using Virtual Reality in a Community Course: A Mixed-Methods Explanatory Study
Journal of community health nursing
workplace diversity recently gained increasing significance urgency business organizations promotion may stem information processing specifically information elaboration information elaboration leverages diverse taskrelated information skills possessed members fostering exchange diverse perspectives elaborate discussions achieving high team performance context cognitive diversity encompassing members knowledge skills perspectives may positive impact however previous studies suggest cognitive diversity lead affective conflict impede information processing organizations highly homogeneous social cultural backgrounds cognitive diversity may effectively utilized information elaboration process potentially yielding negative effects authentic leadership recognized significant contributor facilitating team processes including information processing various studies demonstrating effectiveness study hypothesized cognitive diversity negatively affects information elaboration process authentic leadership positive effect test hypotheses employed multilevel structural equation modeling analysis based data collected 375 respondents 90 teams across various industries japan results showed cognitive diversity negatively affects information elaboration individual level contrast authentic leadership positively affects information elaboration individual team levels findings suggest effect cognitive diversity information processing workplace may always positive particularly sociocultural context values homogeneity observed japanese organizations study advances literature authentic leadership validating effect information elaboration provides practical implications diversity management additionally underscores effectiveness authentic leadership leveraging team members cognitive diversity facilitate information elaboration