The effect of executive’s gender and age on human resource responsibility

Abstract

© 2020, Czestochowa University of Technology. All rights reserved. Nowadays, gender and age are considered as more prominent factor while executing the human resource responsibilities and also an emerging area for the researchers. Thus, the current study aims to examine the influence of gender and age of executives on their practice toward human resource responsibility, including employee’s safety policy, benefits, and knowledge/skill development. The panel data of 816 observations from 408 publicly listed companies in Thailand during 2017-2018 are investigated. The pooled OLS regression has been used to test the hypotheses. The results support our hypothesis that companies that invest in employee’s safety and welfare, as well as, employee’s knowledge development pose higher performances. This study has been found that the age of executives is an essential factor on human resource responsibility of firms. However, our result suggests that the gender of executives has no impact on human resource responsibility.