Defining and Determining Various Dimensions and Modals of Employee Engagement and Workforce Diversity in Higher Educational Institutions
Abstract
Employees are the most important resources for any organisation .With the development of new technology and techniques, organization are growing day by day. People can freely move from one organisation to another organisation, not only within the country but in the whole world too. Workforce Diversity and employee engagement are the two facets of same coin. As when we deal with the engagement of employees, we also have to face the challenges of diverse workforce.
Objective of the Study: The main objective is to study the concept of Employee engagement and workforce diversity in detail and also discuss factors that are affected by engagement and workforce diversity. The researcher will identify various components or dimensions of Employee Engagement and workforce diversity. Benefits of workforce diversity and employee engagement are also discussed.
Research Methodology: The methodology used by the author is qualitative and various secondary sources of collecting data like papers from various Journals are collected and only selected papers are used for collecting information.
Findings: The study tries to explore the concept of workforce diversity as well as employee engagement and also throws light on key dimensions of workforce diversity and employee engagement by analyzing specifically five dimensions namely age, gender, religion, ethnicity, marital status and educational background of workforce diversity. This study will also find the impact of these dimensions on the performance of the workplace and wellbeing of the diverse workforce at workplace.
Conclusion: Finally researcher has come to know about the most studied dimensions of diversity and employee engagement Proper workforce diversity management improves engagement of employees that results in better growth , prosperity of the organisation and engaged employees are more satisfied, healthy and productive employees.
