Work Diversity and Team Performance Among Healthcare Workers in Federal Teaching Hospitals, South East, Nigeria

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to assess the association between job diversity and team performance among healthcare professionals in Federal Teaching Hospitals in South East Nigeria. In the last three decades, researchers have focused on the importance of teamwork and  collaboration in healthcare delivery to improve patient outcomes. The survey research design was used for the investigation. Theoretically, the claim that there is no meaningful correlation between work diversity and team performance can be better understood in light of the Resource-Based View of the Firm, which maintains that a firm can only gain a competitive advantage when its resources are diverse and unchangeable. The research design for this study was based on Spearman's Product Moment Correlation coefficient. The  results show that there is a substantial beneficial association between job diversity and team effectiveness in hospitals. The findings of  this study have implications for hospital management in terms of improving diversity training for healthcare personnel.