Cultural Diversity and Work Engagement in Nigerian Civil Service
Keywords:
Culture, Cultural Diversity, Work Engagement, Civil Service, Nigeria.Abstract
How much of cultural diversity will be adequate to spice up the civil service and address some challenges such as redundancy, poor engagement, nepotism and perceived ineffectiveness of the civil service in Nigeria is worthy of investigation. Civil services play an important role in a globalized business environment, where the war for talents is intense and competition for human resource is aided by regionalization, open market principles and an information technology driven environment. A study on cultural diversity is useful for managers, human resource practitioners and organizational behaviorists, to understand culture, people, and work engagement in the organizations. This study examined cultural diversity as predictors of work engagement in the Nigerian civil service sector.
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