This study builds on the research in human diversity, distributional demography, and relational demography by proposing a new construct, perceived relational diversity, that refers to the extent to which employees perceive themselves to be similar to (or different from) other members of their...

A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...

The use of multi-source feedback has proliferated in the United States in recent years; however, its usefulness in other countries is unknown. Using a large sample of American managers (n=3793), this study first replicated earlier studies demonstrating that simultaneous consideration of self and...

A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...

The relational demography literature uses a variety of measures to describe how overt human differences in two entities, such as a group and its individual members, influence individual and collective outcomes (Tsui amp; Gutek, 1999). Although there has been much debate on the relative...