Academia Diversity of Human Resource can Lead to the Conflict in Public Sector Universities

Abstract

In today’s world diversity is big challenge for not only organizations but also for educational sector. Age, gender, professional and personality diversity has become important challenge for universities too. Academic institutions also need the effective management strategies to manage the conflicts due to diverse academia.  Present research aims to investigate the impact of academic diversity working in different universities on their performance. The variables included in the model are perception, personality and informational diversity that can cause conflicts and impacts the performance of an academia which affects their productivity. The population of study includes faculty of public universities of Pakistan.  Stratified random sampling technique was used and from each strata (university) 10% of total population of each university was considered. A total sample of 434 respondents was used and data was collected through online and physical field visits. The present study shows that due to personality diversity, informational diversity and perceptional diversity conflict can arise which can affect the performance of academic personals working in different universities. Present research adds value in literature and help to understand the universities administration that how academia diversity impacts their work performance. This research opens the door for future researcher to add more value in research by focusing on women universities in Pakistan.    

    Keyword’s: personality diversity; informational diversity; knowledge diversity; employee conflict, academia, university