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Making the most of diversity

From ReutersThu Nov 15, 2012 4:22pm EST By Chrystia Freeland

NEW YORK Nov 15 (Reuters) - For America, 2012 will go down in history as the year of the Latinos, the blacks, the women and the gays. That rainbow coalition won President Barack Obama his second term. This triumph of the outsiders is partly due to America's changing demographics. And it is not just the United States that is becoming more diverse. Canada is, too,as is much of Europe.

That is why it is worth thinking hard about how to make diverseteams effective, and how people who straddle two cultural worlds can succeed. Three academics, appropriately enough a diverse group based in Asia and America, have been doing some provocative research thatsuggests that our ability to comfortably integrate our different identities - or not - is the key.

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In \the Dots Within: Creative Performance and Identity Integration,\Management University, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and Fiona Lee, also at the University of Michigan, argue that ethnic minorities and women in male-dominated professions are most creative when they have found a way to believe that their \andconflictingsocial identities are compatible.\

\tried to see how people who have to deal with seemingly in-conflict culture or gender identities cope,\conclusionwas that people who have found a way to reconcile their two identities - Asian-Americans, for example, or women who work in male-dominated jobs like engineering - are the best at finding creative solutions to problems.

\who see their identities as compatible, they are better at combining ideas from the two identities to come up with something new,\Cheng said. \While those who also share these two social identities, butsee them as being in conflict, they cannot come up with new ideas.\

Cheng, Sanchez-Burks and Lee devised a research

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strategy to probe this issue that you do not need a Ph.D. to appreciate: They asked Asian-Americans to invent new fusion cuisine dishes using both typically Asian and typically American ingredients, and they asked female engineers to design products geared specifically to women. In both cases, people who were at peace with their dual identities performed better. \could create more creative recipes, and they believed it was possible to come up with more recipes,\Cheng said. \identities are in conflict cannot come up with as many creative recipes.''

Cheng has her own experience of being a minority. She is from Taiwan but went to graduate school in the United States; she is a woman but has taught in the male-dominated environment of graduate business schools. She does not minimize the challenge of coming to terms with this sort of diversity.

\that they are more easygoing. It is that they find peace between the two different worlds,\Cheng said. \is not that easy. Pretending doesn't work. There

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