Diversity Management and Performance of Academic Staff of Public Higher Institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria

Nwanze; Chinwe Judith    Onyekwelu Njideka Phina PhD             .    .

doi:10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no7.2025.pg123.141

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Diversity Management and Performance of Academic Staff of Public Higher Institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria

Nwanze, Chinwe Judith Onyekwelu Njideka Phina PhD . .

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This study examines the effect diversity management and performance of academic staff of public higher institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria. The specifically investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on task performance; religion diversity on the adaptive performance and cultural diversity on the contextual performance. Three research questions and three hypothesis were formulate in line with the objective. Relevant conceptual, theoretical and empirical literatures were review. This study is anchored on institutional theory. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Data were source from primary and secondary sources. The population of the study comprised 4593 academic staff of the public higher institutions in Anambra State. Sample size of eight hundred ninety-six 896 respondents using Borg and Gall (1973) formula. Questionnaire was employed as the main instrument of data collection. Face and content validity of the questionnaire was adopted using experts’ judgment. Test re-test and Cronbach Alpha was used to test the reliability of the instrument. The data generated were analyzed using simple percentage analysis and Simple Regression analyses was use in testing the hypotheses. The study found that ethnic diversity has a significant effect on task performance of academic staff; religion diversity had a significant positive effect on adaptive performance of academic staff of public higher institutions; cultural diversity had a positive significant effect on contextual performance of academic staff of public higher institutions; gender diversity has a significant positive effect on employee effectiveness of academic staff of public higher institutions and age diversity has a significant positive effect on employee competence of academic staff of public higher institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria. The study concluded that diversity management had a positive significant effect on the performance of academic staf

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Ethnic DiversityReligion DiversityCultural DiversityTask PerformanceAdaptive

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