IMPACT OF AGE DIVERSITY ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE WITH THE MEDIATING INFLUENCE OF PERCEIVED AGE DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE

Abstract

In today’s fast paced globalization, increased competition, fast depletion of material resources, and increasing need for the protection of worker’s intellectual property and strengthening the knowledge worker are important to build institutions with a diverse workforce. Among all types of workforce diversity, age diversity is more prominent in education sector of Pakistan. Effect of age diversity on employees’ performance can be positive or negative. This research is focused on the impact caused by age diversity on employee performance and the mediating influence of perceived age discrimination climate. This study is conducted on the education sectors; more specifically universities of Islamabad, Pakistan. This research is quantitative in nature and proper scales used for each variable to get unbiased data, further the unbiased results are presented and discussed after detailed analysis. The hypotheses in this study were hypothesized using two theories; “social identity theory and social the categorization theory.” The data was collected from higher education sector (universities) of Pakistan using cross sectional research design and survey technique. For data analysis SPSS v. 23 is used for hypotheses testing and PROCESS macro v. 3.0 was used for testing the mediating hypotheses. This study is also the addition to the existing research and it’s literature by exploring less explored avenues of age diversity, employee performance and perceived age discrimination climate.