Effect of Diversity on Top Management Team to the Bank's Innovation Ability-based on the Nature of Ownership Perspective

In this paper, upper echelons theory as the basis, 16 banks which was listed during the years of 2006 to 2015 as the research object, to research how the Top Management Team diversity (hereinafter referred to as “TMT”) influence on the banks innovation ability under the nature of ownership. The results show: the different nature of banks, the role of TMT diversity on the banks of innovation ability to play is not identical. In the “state-owned banks”, the age, the level of education and functional experience diversity significantly affect the bank's ability to innovate; but in the “non-state-owned banks”, the age and level of education diversity significantly affects its ability to innovate, and functional experience diversity is no longer significant. Conclusions of this study support during the different nature of the bank, the TMT diversity to enhance banks have different effects on innovation, thereby strengthening the team building for the different nature of the Bank for the bank training and development innovation ability, the team structure change provide new evidence.