| dc.description.abstract | Workforce diversity provides
heterogeneity to a workforce thereby making it
a strategic capability to provide competitive
advantage to organizations. Effective
management of diverse human resource in the
right manner can attract profitability to
organizations as human diversity enhances the
flow of novelty, creativity and innovation. This
research study aims to investigate employee
performance in construction industry in
Southern and Western provinces of Sri Lanka.
Out of numerous workforce diversity factors,
age, educational background, work experience
and attitudes were selected as the independent
variables for the study. When conducting the
research,120 questionnaires were distributed
among employees engaged in the construction
industry to collect data through simple random
sampling technique. The results indicated that
there’s a positive impact of diversity in terms of
age, educational background, attitudes and
work experiences on employee performance.
The outcome of this study would benefit
organizations in providing potential
considerations to the management and
workforce from different perspectives which
would enable the distinguishing of dimensions
of workforce diversity variables to further
improve employee work performance. | en_US |
