How Diversity Element Affects the Employee Satisfaction on Workplace. A Research on Al Yusr Industrial Contracting Co. (AYTB), Oil & Gas Industry, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

With increase in globalization over the time, Diversity is become an important factor in heterogeneous working places. Diversity elements and its consequences on employee satisfaction is an important research topic in research and diverse markets. The purpose of current research paper is to investigate the impact of various diversity elements on satisfaction of employees at working place in Saudi Arabia. This research is taking workforce diversity elements as gender, age, education and ethnicity, and investigates their impact on employee satisfaction. A four hundred Employees of AYTB, a well reputed oil & gas contracting company working in Saudi Arabia, was taken as a sample. Questionnaire developed by (Omkar & Josiah, 2015) is used for data collection by random sampling technique. Software SPSS is used for data analysis. This study confirms the significant positive relationship b/w Gender & Ethnicity and Education with employees’ satisfaction towards diversity at working place. In addition, this paper finds no significant role of age for employee satisfaction towards diversity at working place. It is expecting, this research paper plays a vital role for understanding of diversity and its impacts on employee’s satisfaction. It is also expecting that this research study will be helpful for companies & managers for managing the diversity & enhancing human resource development and sustaining more employee’s satisfaction at working place.