International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

A study about how workforce diversity (cultural, age, gender, ethnicity), training and development influences on employee's performance in their workplace in Information Technology companies, Bangalore

  • Author:
  • A. Kumudha, Raji Jennet
  • Total Page Count: 25
  • Page Number: 52 to 76

*Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India

**Research Scholar (FT), Department of Business Administration, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Online published on 18 October, 2019.

Abstract

This paper describes about the employee's workforce diversity in terms of culture, age, gender, ethnicity, racial background and training in terms of its need, development and effectiveness. This study reveals when the organization has a good training for practicing workforce diversity, employees will enjoy all the positive benefits such as motivation, knowledge and skill transfer, creativity and better decision making. Hence employees are enhances the organization's growth. If workforce diversity and training is not handled correctly, the diverse workforce will badly effect organization growth. This research also aims to see the “how workforce diversity (cultural, age, gender, ethnicity), employee training and development influences on employee's performance in their workplace”, in which Workforce Diversity, Training and Development consider as independent whereas dependent variable ‘Employee Performance‟.This research investigates the relationship between work force diversity (cultural, age, gender, and ethnicity), training development and employee performance in the IT Companies and also how work force diversity, training and development influences on employee performance among the IT companies employees. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The analysis revealed that workforce diversity, training and development had significantly related with performance of employees.

Keywords

Workforce diversity, Training and Development, Employee Performance