Despite a rich literature on the link between the human capital possessed by individuals and their performance, scholars have placed relatively less attention on the performance implications associated with differences in the human capital possessed by individuals within a given collective. My dissertation explores how the management of individuals influences the extent to which teams are able to benefit from such differences. The management of individuals is explored in terms of how opportunities are distributed among individuals. Moreover, I explore how the contexts in which such management decisions are implemented influence the effectiveness of these management decisions. The hypotheses are tested using a sample of teams from the National Hockey League. The results indicate that the positive relationship between dispersion in human capital and team performance becomes more positive when opportunities are distributed more broadly across individuals. This positive moderating relationship is found to depend upon the broader context in which such decisions are implemented.
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Industrial Relations and Human Resources
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Human capital--Management
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Teams in the workplace
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vii, 113 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Frederick Scott Bentley
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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