The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity

• Main Author: CHUA, Roy Y. J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Affect-based trust; multicultural experience; negative relationships; intergroup conflict; intragroup conflict; diversity climate; group-performance; firm performance; work groups; creativity; culture; multicultural environment; indirect conflicts; Business; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3838; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4837/viewcontent/CostsAmbientCulturalDisharmony_2013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony—indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in individuals' immediate social environment—and demonstrates how it undermines creative thin...