The Impact of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance

Abstract

Workforce diversity has been identified as one of the strategic capabilities that will add value to the organizations over their competition. The purpose of this research is to study the impact of workforce diversity on employee performance in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. There are numerous diversity factors that can affect the performance of the employees, but this research included only the most critical variables among all the others such as diversity in age, educational background, religion, work experience, and attitudes towards the job of the employees which were independent variables, and employee performance in an organization which was a dependent variable. For this study, the simple random sampling technique was used and data was collected by personally distributing 120 questionnaires to the production level employees in one of the garment factories in Sri Lanka. Regression analysis technique was used to find the impact among the variables. The results concluded that there is a significant and positive impact on the diversity of age, educational background, religion, work experience and attitudes towards the job of employee performance.