The challenges faced by the lgbtq+ community and their productivity in the workplace

Abstract

The challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community are informal discrimination as a form of harassment and other unofficial actions taken by supervisors or co-workers based on the factors affecting employment against them. Verbal harassment and property violence are cited as examples of these challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community. Formal discriminatory refers to the intentional and systematic mistreatment of individuals or groups based on their protected characteristics. Furthermore, the employees' productivity in the workplace implied the absenteeism rate and workforce cost. These factors had significant effects on both the employees and the work environment. This study was conducted using a quantitative research design as mean, Spearman rho used as the statistical tools, and online survey through Google Forms was used as the sampling method strategy which the information was gathered using a survey questionnaire to achieve the researcher's aims. In addition, random sampling was used to draw data from the respondents who completed the said questionnaire. The examination of the data involved conducting a correlation analysis to look at the link between the factors of the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community and the employees productivity in the workplace. The results showed that the impact of the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community and the employees productivity in the workplace was frequently expressed, and had high overall means of 3.64 and 4.00, respectively. The correlation study results showed a substantial correlation between the two variables at the 0.0008 level (2-tailed), indicating that the challenges faced by the LGBTQ community and the employees productivity in the workplace had a significant positive relationship. Therefore, the data suggested that the challenges faced by the LGBTQ community had a huge impact on their productivity in the workplace.