Romanski, Tabio (2022) Diversity Trumps Ability: Reassessment, Efficiency & Beyond. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Today’s challenges require collaboration, thus team composition plays an essential role. This thesis investigates the importance of diversity and ability by taking up the current “Diversity trumps Ability”-debate. An agent-based-modelling approach is used to infer the relative importance and interactions of individual ability of group members and diversity in epistemic groups and distinguish these properties from the predominant approach of focus on group assembly. Further, this contribution adds the novel aspect of efficiency. Efficiency can play a more essential role than the optimal solution, on which the current debate is focused. Thus, quantifying the resources used to reach a given outcome presents an important goal. I investigate the association between each of the group properties and their interaction with the performance indicators of outcome and efficiency across a variety of dimensions using plots, regression analysis and correlation coefficients. Thereby, it is found that a synergy of ability and diversity leads to good optimal solutions. The dominant factor depends on the task type. Efficiency paints a more nuanced picture with a variety of influential factors, which leads to ability and diversity being either harmful or beneficial. These findings suggest potential for diverse groups with highly able individuals under certain conditions. Further research can investigate the potential and nuances both properties have empirically, particularly concerning efficiency. Keywords: diversity trumps ability, diversity, ability, efficiency, epistemic groups, agent-based-modelling
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Engel, O. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 14:03 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/130 |
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