Rapidly disappearing cultural borders coupled with the popularity of teamwork mean that cultural diversity workgroup research is an imperative for both practitioners and researchers. The paradoxical nature of cultural diversity effects found in past research has raised a major management concern about how to achieve and maintain culturally diverse workgroups' full potential. This research examines these management concerns by examining how the diversity climate of openness fostered by diversity open HRM, and the combination of individualist and collectivist HRM policies and practices affect...

Emotion in an organization is much more than a phenomenon experienced solely by its members - it is a deeply embedded component of the organizational fabric. Consistent with this idea, chapters in this volume deal with emotion at all levels of organizing: at the individual level, expressed in interpersonal exchanges and in groups, and across the organization as a whole. They represent a selection of papers from the Eighth International Conference on Emotion in Organizations, held in July 2012 in Helsinki, Finland; plus a selection of invited chapters. Chapters thus represent cutting-edge...