Islam Shafiqul, Alam Md Jahangir, Penalba Maileenita
School of Business and Economics, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Department of Management, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Front Sociol. 2024 Aug 1;9:1384790. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1384790. eCollection 2024.
Though its intensity varies across cultures, practicing diversity beliefs has become increasingly prevalent in contemporary business organizations. Traditionally, diversity encompasses various aspects such as gender, education, religion, language, age, ethnicity, culture and personality orientation. The current study has demonstrated to identify the mediating effects of gender diversity on diversity beliefs and workplace happiness. The targeted population is made up of full-time Bangladeshi employees working in both public and private organizations. The researchers distributed a questionnaire to 500 employees and obtained 320 valid responses, resulting in a response rate of 64%. The study used the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique to assess the mediating effects and direct effects among the variables. The results demonstrate that gender diversity significantly mediate the associations between diversity beliefs and workplace happiness. This means that employees are more likely to be happy with their jobs if the workplace reflects gender variety in its workforce. The study further demonstrates that workplace happiness significantly affects employees' job satisfaction, engagement and commitment. The present research foregrounds that firms and concerned authorities must increase their various attempts to establish gender-equal policies that appear to be more effective for diversity practice and workplace happiness in work organizations.
尽管其强度在不同文化中有所差异，但践行多元化理念在当代商业组织中已变得越来越普遍。传统上，多元化涵盖性别、教育、宗教、语言、年龄、种族、文化和性格取向等各个方面。当前的研究已证明能够确定性别多元化对多元化理念和工作场所幸福感的中介作用。目标人群由在公共和私营组织工作的全职孟加拉国员工组成。研究人员向500名员工发放了问卷，获得了320份有效回复，回复率为64%。该研究使用结构方程建模（SEM）技术来评估变量之间的中介作用和直接作用。结果表明，性别多元化显著中介了多元化理念与工作场所幸福感之间的关联。这意味着，如果工作场所的员工队伍体现出性别多样性，员工就更有可能对工作感到满意。该研究进一步表明，工作场所幸福感会显著影响员工的工作满意度、敬业度和忠诚度。本研究强调，企业和相关当局必须加大各种努力，制定似乎对工作组织中的多元化实践和工作场所幸福感更有效的性别平等政策。
