DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN TERTIARY HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

Tertiary health sector requires proper management ofits workforce to enable it provide efficient services to its clients. These employees are most times engagedfrom different social, economic and demographic settings. This study titled Diversity Management and Employees Performance in Tertiary Health Institutions in Kogi State is carried out to examine how employees' cultural, educational, age and gender diversities affect employees' performance in the selected tertiary health Institutions in Kogi State. The research adopts a descriptive research survey design and data were collected through primary source using a fifteen items structured questionnaire. The research instrument was subjected to reliability test using Cronach Alpha statistics. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and hypotheses tested using multiple regression. The study revealed that there is significant positive relationship between employees cultural, educational and gender diversities and performance while age diversity has positive but insignificant relationship with performance in the tertiary health Institutions in Kogi State. Premised on these findings, the study therefore recommends that these Institutions should strengthen their integration mechanism of ensuring that organizational citizenship is encouraged with the view to enabling employees properly conform with the organizational ethics and values irrespective of their cultural, economic or demographic dynamics. This measure would enhance mutual trust, industrial harmony and improved employees' performance.