Role Of Diversity On Employee Engagement And Productivity

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Milind Malik

Abstract

As the geographic and demographic composition of companies in India shifts rapidly, organizations are shooting with methods to manage and capitalize on diversity in their workspace. The definition of diversity in India is not very holistic when it comes to on-ground consideration and implementation in organizations, only a minority know what constitutes diversity, for the majority it is still just related to gender equality and ethnicities. There are many more attributes and factors that constitute diversity, including, education background, culture, sexual orientation, equal pay, fair pay, open communication, nationality, age, etc.


Upon reading numerous papers, what stood out was the lack of study done in India, and organizations functioning in India. There are papers which prove a relationship between employee engagement, performance, productivity, innovation with cultural diversity, and using this previous literature and a questionnaire, this study aims to throw some light on the role of diversity on employee engagement and productivity.


The responses from the individuals have been used as fillers to fill the gaps from prior studies and to reach some conclusion. The questionnaire tries to see how employee engagement is related to performance and diversity. The results show that there is a strong dependence on performance over diversity, i.e. higher the diversity in an organization, higher is the employee engagement and higher is the productivity and performance.

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