糟糕的做法——员工希望在同性别的团队工作

Employees want to work on same-gender teams - but are worse for it

http://www.hrmorning.com/employees-want-to-work-on-same-gender-teams-but-are-worse-for-it/

Here's something you might guess: Men like working with other men, and women like working with other women. But here's something you might not: That's not a good HR strategy.

An economist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sara Fisher Ellison, and an economist from George Washington University, Wallace P. Mullin, analyzed eight years' worth of revenue data and employee surveys from one large U.S. professional services firm - and what they found was very telling.

While both men and women prefer to work in groups comprised of co-workers of the same gender, the company's revenue figures show that same-sex groups were vastly outperformed by groups made up of both men and women.

In fact, Ellison and Mullin said that what they found "implies that going from an office that is either all male or all female to an office split equally between the sexes would be associated with a revenue gain of 41%."

The downside of working in coed teams, however, is that employees aren't as satisfied with their jobs when asked to work in such teams.

The economists surmise some reasons for this may be that same-sex groups tend to socialize more because they have more in common. But that could also be the reason they don't perform as well.

Ellison told The Wall Street Journal that coed groups contain more varied perspectives and skills, which may very well be the reasons they outperform same-sex groups.

Don't believe what workers say

Another interesting finding: Employees - at the services firm - seem to like the idea of working in diverse groups more than they actually do.

In the firm's surveys, employees gave racial and gender diversity high marks when it came to the effect each had on morale and job satisfaction. Yet, those working in diverse groups tended to report lower levels of morale and satisfaction than their same-sex group counterparts.

The problem, however, then becomes keeping workers' morale and job satisfaction up once they're in those groups.

 

【译文】糟糕的做法--员工希望在同性别的团队工作

这是一些你可能已经猜到的事实：男人喜欢与男人合作，而女人喜欢和女人一起工作。但是你可能不知道的是：这不是一个很好的人力资源战略。

来自麻省理工学院的萨拉·费舍尔埃里森经济学家和乔治华盛顿大学的华莱士P.穆林经济学家，分析了八年的价值收入数据和一个美国大型专业服务公司的员工调查，他们发现了这个问题。

虽然男性和女性喜欢在由相同性别的同事组成的团队工作，但该公司的收入数字显示，男女混搭的团队极大的超过了相同性别的团队。

事实上，埃里森和穆林说，他们发现"办公室全部都是男性或者女性和办公室男女混搭相比，相差了41%的收入。"

男女混合团队中工作的不足之处在于，团队中工作的员工对于自己的工作都不满足。

经济学家猜测的一些原因可能是同性群体往往应酬多，因为他们有更多的共同点。但是，这也可能是他们不能做好工作的原因。

埃里森告诉华尔街日报的记者，男女混合组包含更多的不同观点和技能，这很可能是他们偏爱同性别团体的原因。

另一个有趣的发现：在服务公司的员工与他们实际所在的群体相比来看，似乎有更加喜欢在不同的群体工作的想法。

在该公司的调查中，员工给了种族和性别多样性很高的评价，对公司的士气和满意度有一定影响。然而，这些不同的群体的士气和满意度比他们的同性的团队来说处于较低水平。

现在的问题是一旦他们在这些组，如何保持工作人员的士气和工作满意度上升。