The Diversity Bonus ：How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy ( Our Compelling Interests )

Publication subTitle ：How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

Publication series ：Our Compelling Interests

Author： Page Scott E.;Lewis Earl;Cantor Nancy

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781400888269

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691176888

Subject： F272.92 Personnel Management

Keyword：政治理论,文化人类学、社会人类学,社会学,经济计划与管理,管理学,经济

Language： ENG

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How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think

What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organizations facing complex challenges in the knowledge economy? It can. And The Diversity Bonus shows how and why.

Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments around the world, makes a clear and compellingly pragmatic case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions—all of which lead to better performance and results.

Page shows that various types of cognitive diversity—differences in how people perceive, encode, analyze, and organize the same information and experiences—are linked to better outcomes. He then describes how these cognitive differences are influenced by other kinds of diversity, including racial and gender differences—in other words, identity diversity. Identity diversity, therefore, can also produce bonuses.