Overview
We are conducting research to understand how a diverse workforce affects individual, team, and organisational outcomes.
Our research includes examining diversity across various dimensions, such as demographic diversity, diversity in work experience, and neurodiversity.
For example, in one of our projects, we are analysing how working in multicultural teams or under a culturally diverse team leader impacts employee promotion and mobility.
Publications
- Piyasinchai, Nareuporn Bell, Vincent Mak, and Arian Trieb (2023). The Effects of DEI Communications on Employee Motivation: Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 30-October 3.
- Li, J., van Knippenberg, D., Chattopadhyay, P. and Wu, W. (2022) “Team members’ reactions to a gender-dissimilar leader: competence monitoring and influence.” Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(10): 1002-1016 (DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12908)
- Avery, D.R., Brown, D.K., Dumas, T.L., George, E., Joshi, A., Loyd, D.L., van Knippenberg, D., Wang, M. and Xu, H. (in alphabetical order) (2022) “Racial biases in the publication process: exploring expressions and solutions.” Journal of Management, 48(1): 7-16 (DOI: 10.1177/01492063211030561)
- Li, J., Li, A., Chattopadhyay, P., George, E., Gupta, V. and Marcus, D.K. (2018) “Team emotion diversity and performance: the moderating role of social class homogeneity.” Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 22(2): 76-92 (DOI: 10.1037/gdn0000083)
- Chattopadhyay, P., George, E. and Ng, C.K. (in alphabetical order) (2016) “Hearts and minds: integrating regulatory focus and relational demography to explain responses to dissimilarity.” Organizational Psychology Review, 6(2): 119-144 (DOI: 10.1177/2041386615574540)
Media coverage
Lead Read Today | 7 December 2021
The Impact of Organisational Identification on Employee Retention
Our findings highlight the importance of understanding the newcomer experience over the milestones of the initial training program, the informal socialisation that occurs immediately afterwards and the initial projects allocated to employees. Leaders who are able to do so may intervene more successfully to enhance the newcomer’s organisational identification and retain them for a longer period.
Life-Sparring Podcast | 3 August 2021
Prof. Elizabeth George & Prof. Prithviraj “Raja” Chattopadhyay – Identity (Re-)Search
With Professor Elizabeth George and Professor Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, this podcast explores nothing less than the eternal question “Who Am I.” Both Elizabeth and Raja have spent large parts of their professional lives researching and teaching what makes organisations tick and run. The social and personal identity of employees is a recurring theme of their research. This almost one-hour-long discussion covers many aspects of Elizabeth’s and Raja’s Identity (Re-)Search.
Lead Read Today | 8 July 2021
Should Leaders Organise Employees on Work Teams by Pay Grade?
Our findings highlight the importance of leaders paying attention to pay grade distribution when deciding on team composition.