Impact of Workplace Diversity on Employee Performance

Ben-Bright Benuwa, Joy Nana Okogun-Odompley, B. Ghansah, Juliana Serwaa Andoh
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The authors explore how the milieu of workplace diversity affects the relationship between employee and performance. In particular, we theorize and empirically examine the moderating effects of four (4) categories of diversity context variables: age, gender, ethnicity, and educational background. The authors perform analyses on 175 out of 320 respondents consisting of academic and administrative staff of four selected private universities in Ghana. The results showed, for example, that workplace diversity has an overall influence on employee performance, however, educational diversity has more effect on employee performance in the universities compared to the other competing variables used in this study. Age and educational diversity had a significant impact on employee performance in the universities whilst gender and ethnicity diversity had no influence on their performance. We discuss future research directions regarding diversity, workgroup context, and performance outcomes and outline some recommendations for administrators and university leaders.
工作场所多样性对员工绩效的影响
作者探讨了工作场所多样性的环境如何影响员工与绩效之间的关系。特别地,我们理论化和实证检验了四(4)类多样性背景变量的调节作用:年龄、性别、种族和教育背景。作者对320名受访者中的175人进行了分析,这些受访者包括加纳选定的四所私立大学的学术和行政人员。例如,结果显示,工作场所多样性对员工绩效有总体影响,然而,与本研究中使用的其他竞争变量相比,教育多样性对大学员工绩效的影响更大。年龄和教育多样性对大学员工的绩效有显著影响,而性别和种族多样性对他们的绩效没有影响。我们讨论了关于多样性、工作组背景和绩效结果的未来研究方向,并概述了对管理人员和大学领导的一些建议。
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