TEAM DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN SPORTS: the phenomenon of ethnic subgrouping problems and real cases analysis

Globalization is nowadays a pervading phenomenon in our society. Consequently, people from all cultures and places migrate in order to find better living and working opportunities. This causes a cultural mix present in basically every group, neighborhood and city around the world. This diversity, in terms of culture, languages, sex and age, needs to be managed properly in order to give proper and efficient results both for the people and the organisations. The diversity just mentioned is even more present in the sport sector, where results are measured in terms of performance and wins, thus it is an aspect to be looked at carefully. Among groups, subgroups are naturally to be formed, even more if they're driven by cultural or social reasons, namely "cliques". This work aim at investigate and interprete causes and consequences of the formation of ethnic subgroups within the teams through a literature review and some real cases, presented through a qualitative analysis.