OMOLAJA, OLAYEMI SAMUEL (2021) WORKFORCE DIVERSITY ON ENGAGEMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF OF A SELECTED PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA. Masters thesis, Covenant University Ota..
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Abstract
Workforce diversity on employee engagement has become a major challenge in organization which has result to turn over in organization, thereby causing the organization investing more on recruitment and selection, training and developing new staff recruited and making organization not achieving their goal in due time. The aim of this study is to examine workforce diversity on engagement of academic staff of a selected private universities. Descriptive research design method was adopted for this paper. A close ended structured questionnaire was used in gathering data. The study centred on Nigeria tertiary institution to examine the level of diversity practised in terms gender, age, cultural, educational and marital status on employees’ engagement (community engagement, research engagement, teaching engagement and administrative engagement). A total of 277 questionnaire were dispersed to the respondent of the study and 250 questionnaire was filled and return. In order to attain the research objectives, five hypothesis were created. The data were assembled and examined using STATA, percentage and frequencies table were used for descriptive aspects. To test the hypothesis, multi linear regression Model and Anova were adopted to examine the relationship between variable and identify the of independent variable on the dependent variable. The research findings showed two variable of workforce diversity used in the study has a significant effect on employee engagement and the other three do not have significant effect on engagement.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Workforce diversity, employee’s engagement, social attraction paradigm, social exchange theory and social categorization. |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2021 15:18 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2021 15:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/15392 |
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