TY  - THES
TI  - An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Oil Servicing Companies (SME?s) in Port.
Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
KW  - Workforce Diversity
KW  -  Employee Performance
KW  -  Oil Servicing Companies
KW  -  Harcourt
KW  -  Rivers State and Nigerian Port
ID  - go380
AV  - public
A1  - Amagada, Magdalene
PB  - Griffith College
N2  - This study explored workforce diversity management and employees job performance in the oil and gas servicing SMEs in Port Harcourt Nigeria. With the objectives to investigate the manifestations of workforce diversity in oil and gas servicing companies in Nigeria, explore the effect of workforce diversity management on employees? performance, examine the prospects and challenges of effective diversity management in the oil and gas servicing sector in Nigeria. Workforce diversity showcases the fact that there are different kinds of 
people and they differ in several ways both seen and unseen ranging from age, gender, marital status, social status, disability, sexual orientation, religion, personality, ethnicity, and culture. The study found that workforce diversity in the oil and gas SMEs in Port 
Harcourt manifests through; gender discrimination against woman, ethnic or tribal consideration in recruitment, placement and promotion, a dichotomy between degree 
holders and diploma holders like the Higher National Diploma (HND), a division between the contract staff and permanent staff. The study adopts a pragmatic philosophical orientation, with a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods. Data was collected through structured and semi-structure interviews. The study recommends among others; women involvement in the upstream, mainstream and downstream aspects of the oil and gas sector. This can be achieved by subjecting them to the relevant training and automating the operations in the sector as is obtainable in developed countries, there is need to balance the disparity between degree and diploma holders in recruitment and promotion by 
ensuring that such exercise is based on performance. A periodic competence gap analysis will enable the employees know what the requirement for a certain position is; this will inspire the employees to seeks further certification or qualifications.
M1  - masters
Y1  - 2020/08/27/
UR  - http://go.griffith.ie/380/
ER  -