Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1132
The Effect of Diversity on Employee Sustainable Performance within NGOs Located in Lebanon after the Syrian War
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the current state of diversity in terms of (age – culture – religion - race) and the levels of sustainable performance within NGOs located in Lebanon after the Syrian war, and also to investigate the effect of diversity on employee sustainable performance within NGOs located in Lebanon after the Syrian war. The sample of the study consisted of (120) employees working at NGOs located Lebanon. The researchers adopted the analytical descriptive approach, which relied on questionnaires. The study yielded several results, including the following: "The current state of diversity related to NGOs located in Lebanon after the Syrian war", from the point of view of the research sample, was (high); and there are statistically significant differences at (0.05 significance level) in the opinions of the research sample about the questionnaire axes as a whole according to Training course variable, in favor of employees who had three or more training courses. The study presented several recommendations, including the need for Lebanese NGOs to continue overcoming the difficulties of diversity to achieve better competitive advantage.
Keywords
diversity – sustainable performance – NGOs – Syrian War – Lebanon