A STUDY ON ROLE OF INCLUSIVE HIRING PRACTICES IN ENHANCING WORKPLACE MOTIVATION AT COGNIZANT

This study investigated the role of inclusive hiring practices in enhancing workplace innovation within a leading information technology organization.A structured questionnaire was administered to 100 employees selected through simple random and purposive sampling methods Findings indicated that majority of employees received diversity and inclusion training, 50.0%rated team diversity as high or very high, and majority perceived inclusive hiring as improving innovation outcomes.Increased creativity and better collaboration emerged as the primary benefits of inclusive hiring.Areas for improvement included expanding training coverage, enhancing visibility of disability inclusion, and embedding inclusion metrics into organizational scorecards.The study underscored the positive association between inclusive recruitment, participatory decision-making, and innovation performance, while identifying gaps in executive engagement and under-represented group inclusion.