Gender diversity and Job satisfaction in organizations PDF

Running head: GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
Gender Diversity and Job Satisfaction in Organizations
Name of the University:
Named of the Student:
Authors Note:

1GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................3
1.1. Research Problem................................................................................................................3
1.2. Background of Research Topic............................................................................................3
1.3. Research Environment and Demographics..........................................................................4
1.4. Research Significance..........................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Critical Literature Review..............................................................................................6
1.1. Theoretical Background.......................................................................................................6
1.2. Structural Approaches to Job Diversity and Job Satisfaction..............................................9
1.3. Contextualization of Research...........................................................................................10
1.3. Research Gap.....................................................................................................................11
1.4. Research Hypotheses.........................................................................................................12
Chapter 3: Proposed Research Design and Methods.....................................................................12
1.1. Research Design.................................................................................................................12
1.2. Research Instrument...........................................................................................................13
1.3. Ethical Consideration.........................................................................................................14
1.4. Research Tools...................................................................................................................14
1.5. Data Analysis Methods......................................................................................................15
1.6. Validity and Reliability......................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................18

2GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS

3GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Research Problem
Gender diversity in workplace is a problem, which has been addressed by numerous
international institutes and several researches have been conducted. The traditional business
organizations provide men with the prominence to manage boardroom representation as well as
corporate responsibilities. With numerous legal and social reforms, women have been provided
with equal job opportunities and education (Madsen and Nielsen 2017). By accomplishing higher
educational levels as well as professionalism, women would have the similar performance ability
like men.
Despite the fact that there is an upward movement in women accomplishing career
success, some empirical researches have been carried out for identifying the real impact of
providing equal career opportunity for both genders in the context of Saudi Arabia. Hence,
conducting a research on this issue is significant, since it could result in awareness for other
institutions to gain an understanding of benefits of enforcing gender diversity in their
organizational culture.
1.2. Background of Research Topic
Out of the overall population of Saudi Arabia, the female population comprises of
35.90% of the overall population, while the male population has been 64.10% of the total
population of the nation (Tanwar and Prasad 2016). However, the number of women in high
managerial positions is insignificant. Both professional men and women have high competency
levels; however, proper recognition is not provided to women for their skills. If the organizations

4GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
are involved in effective utilization of both the skills of men and women, it will be a significant
benefit to accomplish the expected organizational performance.
The male population mainly dominates majority of the industrial sectors in Saudi Arabia,
since they hold most of the higher-level positions. Most of the women population could be
observed in the junior level like secretarial, customer service, administrative and sales roles.
However, they are not found in technical roles of the organizations that directly lead to
advancing into top level management (Belias and Koustelios 2014). Therefore, a gender gap is
imminent in the industrial sectors of Saudi Arabia. This mandates the need for identifying the
reasons behind the establishment of gender diversity and the way they affect the performances of
the business organizations along with the techniques through job satisfaction level could be
increased.
1.3. Research Environment and Demographics
All business organizations do not have a sound perception on gender diversity; therefore,
women are not deemed to be fit for the top management positions. The belief that women could
not retain in a job for a longer timeframe due to family life imbalance and work and the
perspective that women do not possess the endurance of managing corporate responsibilities
have been the primary reasons that women are not considered being important in workplaces
(Tabvuma, Georgellis and Lange 2015).
The target group for this research will be the top, middle and lower-level management
staffs of 10 leading organizations falling in different industrial sectors of Saudi Arabia. From
each organization, approximately 8-10 staffs from the various managerial positions will be
selected for meeting the purpose of the research. Hence, a total of 30 respondents will be selected

5GENDER DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
to carry out the survey process of the study. Questionnaire will be provided to the participants
via e-mail so that sound knowledge could be gathered regarding experiences and opinions on
discrimination issues as well as gender diversity. Thus, the research environment and
demographics will provide an overview of the organizational benefits at the time of establishing
gender diversity in workplaces.
1.4. Research Significance
The research will be highly significant for different types of business organizations
regardless of their size, nature and industrial sectors. It will generate awareness regarding how
recruiting the talents of both genders could have positive effects on the organizations from
financial perspective as well as psychological perspective (Schwab et al. 2016). This evaluation
of information could be utilized further for undertaking better recruitment as well as selection
decisions along with providing equal opportunity for both the genders. The conventional gender
stereotyping will not be considered in this research, since it emphasizes on the benefits obtained
by recruiting a diversified pool of talents.
For ensuring sustainable variations, all the managers of the business organizations are
required to possess considerable awareness of the needs and challenges in order to develop the
female staffs (Ward and Forker 2017). They are required to possess the ability so that they could
practice transparent performance management, flexible working practices along with sound
training and development, when necessary. By using this research, the government of Saudi
Arabia could lay stress on regulating equal opportunity for the male and female workers in
different types of business organizations. Based on the outcomes, it could undertake appropriate
measures so that gender discrimination could be abolished from the society of the nation.