A Study of Workplace Behavior of Knowledge Workers with Respect to Gender, Marital Status and hHumor Quotient

Abstract

Design/Methodology/Approach: A self constructed questionnaire was used for the purpose of the survey. The questionnaire had items related to the perception of professionals regarding key factors in an organizational environment. The universe comprises IT organizations. The technique of multi stage sampling has been used, at the first stage area sampling has been adopted and the IT organizations in Delhi and NCR were chosen. At the second stage stratified sampling has been used in which the corporate professionals of each organization were further divided into three cadres namely top management, middle management, and low level of management this has been used to attain a representative sample of respondents. Out of 150 questionnaires sent to the respondents we received 114 completed questionnaires. Findings: It was found that both gender and marital status are key variables making a difference in the way people behave and conduct when they are at work. It was also found that personal life has a lot to do with professional performance. The priorities, discipline, commitments are handled differently with respect to gender and marital status. Another, significant variable that this study addresses is humor which is found to have correlations with recession and layoffs.