Jalian, Salpi2024-06-112024-06-112017Jalian, S. (2017). Impact of Diversity Management Initiatives on Performance Within the Lebanese Private Sector: The Employee Perspective (MBA thesis, Haigazian University)https://doi.org/10.62811/th.0172https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/122Since the end of the civil war in Lebanon, the economic and demographic realities of Lebanon have induced the adoption of workforce diversity within the private sector. With more women entering into the Lebanese workforce coupled with the demographic changes across the different religious sects in Lebanon, diversity is rather a fact than choice for many organizations. Based on a survey of 116 individuals of different professions employed across many industries, reveals that, employees who are working in inclusive organizations perceive diversity management to be of a greater impact on personal and organizational performance. To conduct the study, descriptive statistics, reliability of scales, factor analysis, regression stepwise, independent samples T-test and ANOVA with Post Hoc Analysis were used respectively. Based on the findings both of the hypotheses tested were supported, whereby the diversity management initiatives that were most perceived to have an impact on personal level performance were diversity related ‘policies’ as well as ‘training and development’, whereas, the diversity management initiatives that were most perceived to have an impact on the organizational level were ‘recruitment and promotion’ as well as ‘compensation and benefits’.