A study on role of employee demographics on human resource practices in metro rail service sector organizations in India

In this multifaceted world, employee demographics have emerged as an important consideration for human resource manager due to diverse nature of work force. Demographics characteristics are gaining importance in making strategic human resource policies and practices in the organization. This study is an attempt to investigate the role of employee demographics in the application of human resource (HR) practices in Metro Rail service sector organizations in India. Independent sample t-test was applied as an analytical tool. Findings indicate that there is significant impact of demographics variables (age, experience and grade) in employees’ attitude towards selective human resource practices. Based on the findings, this study tries to provide an understanding on the influence of demographics characteristics towards the importance and application of HR practices and discusses how the differences in demographics can be utilized in the organization towards effectiveness of human resource management.