Role of Hardiness in Employee Engagement of Male and Female IT Professionals

The present study aimed to determine the role of psychological hardiness in employee engagement of male and female information technology professionals. It was hypothesized that female IT professionals and those with high hardiness would exhibit higher employee engagement than male IT professionals and those with low hardiness, respectively. Psychological hardiness scale (PHS) and employee engagement scale (EES) were administered to 4000 IT professionals. Thereafter, on the basis of Q1 and Q3 statistics on the obtained hardiness scores, 160 professionals with high hardiness and 160 subjects with low hardiness were selected randomly. Care was taken to maintain male-female ratio as 1: 1. The present study revealed that female IT professionals and those with high hardiness had higher employee engagement as compared to male IT professionals, and those with low hardiness, respectively. However, no joint role of gender and hardiness in employee engagement level of IT professionals was observed.