The Effects of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance: A Study on the Selected Pharmaceutical Firms of Bangladesh

Diversity means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies. The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of work diversity on employee performance in the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh. The study also sought to determine the effect of education diversity, ethnic diversity, gender diversity and age diversity on employee performance in the Pharmaceutical industry in Bangladesh. A descriptive research design was used in this research. The study target population was all the managers working at the headquarters of all the pharmaceutical farms of Bangladesh. This study used non probability random sampling and snowballing sample method to fill up the questionnaire. The sample size of this study was therefore 50 workers of most renowned pharmaceutical farms of Bangladesh