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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?

Workforce diversity is increasing across the globe, while organizations strive for equity and inclusion. Therefore, research has investigated how team diversity relates to performance. Despite clear arguments why diversity should enhance (some types of) performance, and promising findings in individual studies, meta-analyses have shown weak main effects. However, many meta-analyses have failed to distinguish situations where diversity should have a positive impact from those where its impact is more likely to be negative, so that boundary conditions remain unclear. Here, we provide a new comprehensive, meta-analytic summary of the growing literature that considers the state of the evidence across disciplines, countries, and languages. We conducted a reproducible registered report meta-analysis on the relationship between diversity and team performance (615 reports, 2,638 effect sizes). We found that the relationships between demographic, job-related and cognitive diversity, and team performance are significant…