Objectives: The goal of this study was to see how worker diversity affected organisational sustainability and innovation in a specific manufacturing industry in Nigeria. Specifically the study determine the impact of gender, age diversity, ethnic diversity and educational diversity on the sustainability and innovation of organisations.
Theoretical Framework: The management research, functional categories, social categories, and psychological research where explored in this study. These categories serve as illustrative examples within the broader context of understanding various dimensions of research in the field of management.
Method: The study included a descriptive research design. Individual survey questionnaire were distributed to a sample of 20 companies and 81 participants from the indicated industrial industries. CVR=1 was obtained by using Lawshe's template to test the questionnaire's validity, while Cronbach Alpha was used and supplied a coefficient alpha of 0.86 to establish the questionnaire's homogeneity. Data was collected on-site and analysed using frequency counts and percentages. At p.01 and .05, the Spearman rank correlation coefficient was utilized to evaluate statistical significance.
Findings: Gender, age, and educational background are all substantially connected with organizational sustainability and innovation, workforce diversity characteristics have been identified as major predictors of organizational sustainability and innovation, but ethnic diversity has been found to be negatively related to organisational sustainability and innovation. The implication is that the chosen manufacturing firm has an outstanding age, gender, and educational diversity composition, and that it must be handled properly to fully profit from the diversity.
Conclusion: The selected manufacturing company must supply various skill maximization training to enhance the employees' current inventive capacity and ensure ethnic variable is handled the positive way to ensure organizational sustainability.