Impact of Gender Balance Practices on Employee Performance in Selected Governmental Organisations: Nigerian Experience
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2022
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Academy of Strategic Management Journal
Abstract
Previous studies have focused more on gender diversity at the expense of gender balance
practices, and as such, researchers have failed to dedicate adequate attention to investigating
the manifestations of gender balance in the Nigerian public sector. In circumstances where
studies exist, there have been inconsistent results regarding the impact of gender balance or
equality as it is more common in the literature on employee performance. It would not be
sufficient to explain the gender balance practices in the literature without considering their
practical manifestations and implications for employee performance. To this end, the study
considered that gender balance practices are more important in the public sector because public
organizations are more symbolic of national values. Focusing on the economic independence of
men and women by studying opportunities for career progression and the role of organizational
politics, empirical research is implemented to understand the effect of gender balance practice
on employee performance. The study finds that organizational politics and as well as employees'
perception of organizational fairness affects the performance of employees. These results imply
that when gender balance practices are present, employees are more motivated regardless of
gender. The study recommends that organizations should focus more on promoting gender
balance practices in terms of providing employees with economic independence and also making
rooms for both junior and senior-level staff to benefit from organizational politics.
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Diversity, Gender and Organizational Fairness, Personnel Administration, Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity