Impact of gender-focused human resource management on performance: The mediating effects of gender diversity

Muhammad Ali
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Muhammad Ali: QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Australian Journal of Management, 2016, vol. 41, issue 2, 376-397

Abstract: Gender-focused human resource policies and practices signal an organization’s perspective on gender diversity. The signal produces perceptions that the organization values gender diversity leading to a gender-diverse workforce. In turn, a gender-diverse workforce provides a firm with a competitive advantage that should result in higher performance. This paper tests the mediating effects of gender diversity (at non-management and management levels) in the relationship between gender-focused policies and practices and performance . The findings indicate that non-management gender diversity partially mediates the relationship between gender-focused policies and practices and productivity, and management gender diversity partially mediates the relationship between gender-focused policies and practices and perceived market performance. The results have several theoretical, research and practical implications.

Keywords: Gender diversity; gender-focused policies and practices; perceived market performance; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0312896214565119

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