January 1997
Intermediate to advanced
4 pages
17m
English
False.
The membership of teams we studied with the TDS (see sidebar) varied from all male to all female.
Looking across the 192 teams for which we have information about the gender of members, we found no relationship between gender composition and scores on the Team Unity scale, which measures the degree of collaboration and freedom from destructive conflict.
According to the data we have collected so far, the prevailing view that women are more collaborative than men is not true in work teams, at least not in the eyes of their members. There are both men and women who handle conflict and collaborate well, and men and women who handle conflict poorly or frequently compete with each other. ...
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