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La créativité des équipes de travail : comprendre l’ambivalence de la diversité

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This thesis focused on the role of diversity on the functioning of work teams. He responded to the ambiguity of the literature’s findings and to the call of many authors to pay more attention to the processes underlying the impact of diversity. On the one hand, this work has adopted a minimalist approach and proposed the virtual accomplice paradigm to isolate the sociocategorical part of diversity. On the other hand, he used creativity, rather than performance, as a tool of understanding, because it involves specific sociopsychological issues. By inducing a simple perception of cultural diversity, we observed a decrease (especially qualitative) in divergent thinking among participants who had faced diversity. The observations undermine the main predictions in the literature. We have therefore opposed two possible interpretations. The first is based on the role of social validation and the second on the role of social interdependence. Our observations and deductions highlighted the complexity of the role of diversity in the functioning of work teams.