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Gender Diversity and Human Capital Efficiency in Australian Institutions : The Moderating Role of Workforce Environment Quality
Miglani, Seema Obeng, Victoria
Miglani, Seema
Obeng, Victoria
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Abstract
We examine the relationship between board gender diversity and human capital efficiency and further consider the moderating role of workforce environment quality from the perspectives of profit-making and loss-making firms. Using a sample of 2700 firm-year observations from listed Australian firms for the period 2008–2019, we found a positive relationship between the presence of females on boards and human capital efficiency which was more pronounced for loss-making firms as against profit-making firms. Additionally, the relationship between gender diversity and human capital efficiency was moderated by the quality of workforce environment with the moderating effect being more pronounced for loss-making firms as compared to profit-making firms. Board gender diversity plays a substitutive role in the management of human capital efficiency for loss-making firms where investment in human capital development is limited.
Keywords
human capital, gender diversity, workforce environment, corporate governance
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
16
Issue
7
Page Range
1-26
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ACU Department
Peter Faber Business School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY 4.0
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Open
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© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).