Impact of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance: An Empirical Assessment of Sugar Mill, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh

Author: Pal, Savita, Jain, Mukesh Kumar

Abstract:
Generational diversity among the workforce has been accepted as one of the intended capabilities to add to the organizations productivity in todays competitive world. The main objective behind conducting this study is to know the significant impact of the diversity of the workforce in the sugar industry in Meerut. Different dimensions relate to the diversity of the workforce in an organization such as age, education, workforce experience, the religion of employees and the last variable is organizational tenure which was measured as an independent variable, and performance of employees, which consider as the dependent variable. For this study, random sampling was used, and data were collected personally from 500 respondents working in Sugar Mills in Meerut. In addition, structure Equation Modeling was used to know the impact among different variables used to measure employee performance. The study results conclude that there is a positive impact on the performance of employees of different dimensions of workforce diversity such as age, educational status, religion, employee experience except for organizational tenure.

Keywords:Sugar Mill, Employee Performance, Workforce Diversity

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International Journal of Trade & Commerce (Vol: 10 Issue:1)