Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification

Purpose Besides diversity's positive effects, groups of “we” against “them” may form in accordance with social categorization theory, showing negative consequences. The authors aim to reconcile these results and examine their boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach studied 584 working professionals from five contexts (transnational companies dealing multicultural interactions) analyzed data using moderated-mediation procedures. Findings A leader-promoting diversity climate plays a crucial role moderating the relationship between perceived dissimilarity group identification, which is mediated by value dissimilarity. Originality/value This study mainly contributes treating as multicomponent construct, emphasizing differences embodied various conceptualizations – namely visible For result highlight leaders' role, beyond that organizations individuals, stimulating diversity-embracing work units.