Workplace diversity (WPD) is a holistic concept that denotes the differences that exist between people working within an organisation. It describes the complex physical, sociological or psychological attributes such as gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs that define an individual or group. Therefore, WPD transcends the recruitment, representation or preferential treatment of people within an organisation. The complexity of WPD has become one of the most challenging issues currently of critical importance in business and organisational management. Therefore, the paper presents the critical issues currently impacting on WPD in modern day organisations. It identified and highlighted the various prospects and challenges of WPD. The results revealed that diversity in the workplace enhances the critical thinking, problem-solving, and employee professional skills. Furthermore, it enables organisations to attract talent, improve corporate attractiveness, productivity. However, it is currently hampered by the hostility, disrespect and discrimination people with diverse background encounter in the workplace. Such behavioural attitudes as ascribed to prejudices and biases towards people with varied lifestyle choices, ethnic and cultural differences, disabilities, and generational gaps. These factors can stifle morale, teamwork, profitability and the attractiveness of the organisation. Consequently, modern day organisations need to address the causes of these issues to exploit the benefits of WPD. These can be addressed strategies that foster an empowerment culture, build communication and team spirit with organisations. These efforts will promote acceptance, productivity, and profits in future organisations.
The Malaysian Employer Federation or MEF (2015) are expected to have around 350,000 jobs offered in the various sector that relevant in the area of trade, restaurant and accommodation. The previous record showing some growth on the hire in the industrial segment by 58,000 jobs. These are the two key areas that contribute to the employment activities in the market. According to Jackson and Shuler (2003), recruitment involves looking and finding competent candidates that best fit for an organization with regards to huge demand from the market imperatively for Human Resource Management (HRM). Therefore, this research is to evaluate the factors influencing job-seekers’ intention to use online recruitment websites, with the hope that the recruitment portals and organizations that want to use online recruitment websites for their recruiting purposes will be able to make use of the information gathered from the study to enhance user experience when using online recruitment websites for job-seeking activities. For the purpose of this study, information pertaining to users’ attitude intended action to use, continue using, and recommending others to use online recruitment websites is gathered. A total of 208 respondents are required to specify the degree to which they strongly agree or strongly disagree. Three statements involving to Intention to Use online recruitment websites using a 5-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree). Analysis of data using SPSS. The outcome showed there is a significant relation between DV and IVs.
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