Gender Discrimination And Its Impact On Employee Productivity/Performance (A Study On Government Universities Of Upper Sindh).

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Dr. Muhammad Saleh Memon , Paras Soomo MS Research Scholar , Farooque Soomro M ,

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Abstract

This research paper examines the gender discrimination and its impact on the employees’ performance/productivity. Three factors of gender discrimination are included that is discrimination in recruitment and selection, promotion and facilities. Closed ended questionnaire was used. Data was collected from 192 employees of public universities of upper sindh. Quantitative technique regression was used to analysis the data. Results shows that gender discrimination factors are not much contributing towards employee performance, only single variable that is gender discrimination in promotion is positively related with employee performance and level of significance is .001, but the strength of relationship between gender discrimination in promotion and employee performance/productivity is too much weak that is (.240). 

Keywords

Employee Performance/Productivity, Gender Discrimination, facilities, promotion, recruitment and selection

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