Workforce Diversity and Organisational Survival of Private Hospitals in Niigeria

Abstract

This study examines workforce diversity and organizational survival hospitals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. The aim of this study is to exploit the relationship between Workforce Diversity and Organizational Survival of Private hospitals in Port Harcourt. The cross-sectional survey of quasi-experimental design was adopted for this study. Spearman’s Rank order correlation coefficient was used to analyze the three null hypotheses at 0.0 5% level of significance. The study shows that a significant relationship that exist among dimensions and measures of the predictor variables and the criterion variables respectively, It also revealed that organizational structure as a moderating variable had significant effect on the relationships that exist between the predictor and criterion variable. It was recommended that; Private hospitals management should make policies that will ensure the orientation of surface level diversity as it would stimulate adaptability of the employees in changing business environment ,Private hospitals management disposition should be on deep level diversity as this will enhance adaptability in the organization, Private hospitals management should adopt a structure that defines how jobs are formally divided, grouped and coordinated, and it must be considered. Keywords; workforce diversity, Organizational Survival, Adaptability, Dynamic Capability, Deep Level Diversity, Organizational Structure