An Empirical Study of the Selected Socio-Demographic Factors of Employees’ Performance

Abstract

The main objective of the study is to provide analyses of the effects of selected socio-demographic factors i.e. age, gender, marital status, tenure of service, and residential location on the employees’ performance of selected departments/offices of a government organization. The effect of the explanatory variables was estimated through the use of Panel Regression Analysis. The findings reveal that all of the variables used in the model had passed the unit root test at level, which means that the ratio of the number of panels to time periods tend to zero asymptotically, and therefore the variables were acceptable to use for modeling and regression. The results also show that there is a weak positive correlation between the employees’ performance and residential location; whereas, there was very weak and negative correlation between employees’ performance and the employees’ age, gender, marital status, and tenure of service. Furthermore, age and gender appeared to be statistically significant using the Fixed Effect Model. The gender positively contributed to employees’ performance, while age negatively influenced the employees’ performance. If taken collectively, the selected socio-demographic variables significantly affect the employees’ performance. The variations in employees’ performance were significantly explained by the variations in employees’ age, gender, marital status, tenure of service, and residential location. There were significant differences in the employees’ performance of departments/offices in an organization. The Fixed Effect Model is the appropriate model to use for employees’ performance.