The Relation between Affirmative Action Behavior and Employee Wellness
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56830/WRBA11202104Keywords:
Affirmative Action Behavior, Employee Wellness, Fairness, Managing Diversity, Equal opportunity policiesAbstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between Affirmative action behavior and employee wellness, which refers to policies and programs that are designed to actively promote equal opportunity in the workplace regardless their race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, and other factors and how this effect employee’s mental health. We will prove this relation thought out some variables, which are the discrimination between the two genders and the stress in work place. Even through many researches and our questionnaire results people proved that there is a positive relationship between the two variable as they see that affirmative action is a good policy and they prefer to work in an organization that
apply affirmative action as a policy which means that it improve and increase the employee’s wellness in organization.
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