Study of Impact of Gender on Organizational Climate of the Employees Working in IT & ITES Companies Across National Capital Region (NCR), India
Keywords:
organizational climate, gender, IT industry, non parametric, kruskal-wallis testAbstract
As per the report drafted by NASSCOM (20 Feb, 2018), year 2017 was considered to be an economical enriched year. Also, India is considered to be the fourth largest base for new businesses in the world and is set to increase its base to 11,500 tech start-ups by 2020. The involvement of IT industry in the economy to such a level opens the gates for opportunities as well as threats. The threats could be structural or eruptional depending upon the variability that surrounds an organization. This research paper focuses on studying the impact of gender on overall organizational climate by evaluating degree to which gender affects chosen dimension of the organizational climate. It is done through surveying 304 employees working in IT and ITES companies in National Capital Region of India. Likert’s seven point scale is used in the questionnaire centralizing on 17 key dimensions of organizational climate and conclusions are drawn by applying Kruskal-Wallis test which is a non parametric alternative for the one-way ANOVA while using IBM Statistic software (SPSS). Performance appraisal and career planning were statistically found to be two dimensions that are significantly affected by category of gender. However, there was no respondent falling into “other” category.
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