How human resources diversity influences creativity in (an) organization?

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Creativity is an inevitable necessity for survival and long term success of organizations especially in rapidly changing environments. But the context and situations for emergence and development of creativity potentials should be provided to make use of it. Human resources diversity is one of main contextual factors influencing creativity. Although researchers argue that human resources diversity influences


creativity in organization, but the basic challenge in the context of diversity and creativity relationship is how diversity influences creativity. This article aims to specify how diversity influences creativity using meta-analysis method. 102 researches were studied in this study. The results of meta-analysis show that creativity is a consequence of diversity and the influence of diversity on creativity appears in four groups of variables ; independent variables, moderating variables, mediating variables, and dependent variables. Diversity is influenced by moderating variables such as tasks identity, leadership style, organizational culture, conflict, and participation and it influences creativity by exposing group members to different resources, access to a wide range of resources, and different resources combination

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