Team membership variables include team members’ experiences and skills, cultural
background, social identity (issues such as class, race, gender, ethnicity) and
individual aspects of personality and intelligence. At the team level the variable of
social identity, personality, and culture intersect in complex ways. These intersections
may be seen as a tri-lens, which may exist as overlapping personal, social, and
collective identities that members bring to a multicultural team. The role of culture
will be discussed in Chapter 2, and the role of social identity and personality will
be explored in detail in Chapter 3.