Linking Workforce Gender Diversity and Inclusion with Organizational Commitment: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Workforce diversity and inclusion in today’s globalized world is a primary challenge for any organization. Diversity is inevitable issue which could not be neglected by the management of the organisations. People are different from one another in terms of their culture, attitude, behaviour and psychology and management of working organisations need to decide that how this diversity which seems as one of the organisational challenge could be productively used in benefit of the organisations. It is the art of the managers that how they plan and utilise the human resources and their relative differences for organisational development.
This study is made to identify the impact of workforce gender diversity and inclusion on an important organization outcome, i.e., organizational commitment. This study follows descriptive research design and for data collection, convenience sampling technique was used for 354 employees of IT companies of metro cities of India. The data analysis is done through statistical tools like descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
The findings of the study reflect a direct and significant relationship between workplace inclusion and organizational commitment through linear regression analysis. The results of z-test reflected that male and female employees have different perception towards workplace inclusion and organizational commitment. The study provides guidelines to IT companies to understand and facilitate inclusive workplace that will encourage the employees to exhibit high level of organizational commitment.