Abstract
Demographic attributes of an employee results in significant difference in attitudes and beliefs which leads to difference in perception. This paper investigates the difference in viewpoint in faculty members based on their characteristics such as gender, marital status, educational qualification and designation towards the nine dimensions of work environment. Survey data was collected from a sample of 182 faculty members working in AICTE recognized and state university affiliated business schools in Kerala by administering standardized, valid and reliable tools. Independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to analyse data. Findings show that there was significant difference in perception towards the various dimensions of work environment across marital status, educational qualification and designation. There was no significant difference in perception across gender. The implications, findings and suggestions for future research are detailed.
Highlights
Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour disciplines speak of practices and policies that are applied mostly to the entire human resource of an organisation
Hypothesis 1 - There will be no difference in work environment dimensions across demographics
Attitudes and beliefs change with difference in demographics which is supported by the research findings of Edgar & Geare (2004) and Pratistha & Gupta (2014)
Summary
Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour disciplines speak of practices and policies that are applied mostly to the entire human resource of an organisation. The assumption made regarding the human resource is that it is homogeneous in nature and employee’s viewpoint towards these practices and policies are mostly similar (Wood, 1995; Purcell, 1999). Previous research studies have commonly analysed the perception of employees towards the various study constructs taking into consideration the viewpoint or response of either the higher level officers or human resource managers. This may not match the exact response of the other employees and it can be said that they are not considered for research study.
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