Employees’ perceptions of diversity management practices as predictors of psychological capital: A South African study

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

 
 
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Title Employees’ perceptions of diversity management practices as predictors of psychological capital: A South African study
 
Creator Sealome, Litsoanelo Palesa Chipunza, Crispen
 
Subject Human Resources Management/Industrial Psychology employees’ perceptions; diversity management practices; psychological capital; bed and breakfast establishments.
Description Human resource practitioners have recently been interested, especially within large corporations, in diversity management and psychological capital (commonly known as positive psychology) – making the insights from such studies inadequate and difficult to apply in other contexts such as the small business sector. With no known empirical research on these two areas of interest within small businesses, the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of perceptions of diversity management practices on psychological capital amongst employees in bed and breakfast (BB) establishments. A quantitative design, specifically a cross-sectional case study design, was adopted. Data were collected from a sample of 144 BB employees conveniently selected. The collected data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between perceived diversity management practices and psychological capital of employees. Specifically, perceived diversity management practices in specific human resource management practices were found to influence the psychological capital of the BBs employees. Given the nature of BB establishments, in terms of attracting diverse customers, the study recommends the need of BB managers to implement appropriate and fair human resource diversity management practices in order to promote the development of psychological capital amongst employees. This study is the first of its kind to contribute to the literature on diversity management practices and psychological capital within BB establishments in a developing context.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Central University of Technology, Free State, B&B establishments in the area where the research was undertaken
Date 2020-12-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Empirical research; Survey- quantitative approach
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/td.v16i1.790
 
Source The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 16, No 1 (2020); 22 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage District Municipality in South Africa Nil The final sample consisted of 71% males 29% females. The most represented age group was 21 to 30 years (39%) followed by 31 to 40 years (35%). In terms of the population group, 51% of the sample were blacks, followed by 34% white 14% coloureds and only 1%
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Litsoanelo Palesa Sealome, Crispen Chipunza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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