RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: A REVIEW OF NIGERIAN PUBLIC SECTOR
Abstract
The paper examined religious diversity and employee engagement: a review of Nigerian Public Sector. The population of the study comprised of the MDAs at Federal Secretariat, Rivers state. !00 Federal Government employee were purposively sampled. Through the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences, Spearman Rank Correlation was used for the analysis. The findings showed that dimensions of religious diversity has a noteworthy and positive nexus with the employee engagement (vigor, dedication and absorption) of employee of Nigerian Public Sector. The findings of the study revealed that religious diversity is negatively correlated with vigor, dedication and absorption of Nigerian public sector employees. The identified negative correlations suggest that there is a tendency for levels of engagement, enthusiasm, and absorption in work-related activities to decline in tandem with the increase in religious diversity. The study recommends that organizations should encourage employees to engage in open dialogue and communication in order to promote appreciation and comprehension of diverse religious viewpoints and leadership should lead by example in promoting diversity and inclusion.
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