IMPACT OF WORKFORCE DIVERSITY ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

This paper aimed to analyze the relationship of Nepal's commercial banks between workforce diversity and employee performance. The diversity of the workforce involves gender, age, education, and ethnic diversity. The survey was performed via the distribution of a set of structured questionnaires. This study obtained and used 70.25 percent of useful questionnaires from four commercial banks of Nepal. A multiregression model was used. The research results showed that gender diversity and employee performance had a significant positive relationship. It implies that most of the employees accepted that when it comes to hiring different sexes in the organization, the organization should not discriminate and there is an equal opportunity for women to improve their careers. Employees of various ages are employed by Nepalese banks. The employees, however, said that as this increases their efficiency, they feel secure working with either older or younger employees of different ages. Hence, the good predictors of employee success in Nepal are gender diversity and age diversity. However, the results showed that there is no impact of education and ethnic diversity on the performance of employees. Companies, therefore, need to pay more attention to diversity management in their companies so that they can increase their employee performance, which eventually facilitates the achievement of organizational goals.