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Impact of Employer Branding on Job Satisfaction: with Special Reference to Insurance Company
(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2013) Mendis, M.V.S.; Wanigasekera, W.M.S.K.
Employer branding is relatively a new terminology for many companies in Sri Lanka, but it is becoming more important to today’s businesses. The prime focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between employer branding and executive level employees’ job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. Seventy executive level employees were systematically sampled for the study. Employer branding is measured by using three dimensions such as economic value, development value and social value. Data were gathered through standardized questionnaire method and for the purpose of hypothesis testing, correlation and simple regression analysis were used by the researchers. Data were analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences 20.0 version software to find out the relationship between variables. The results of the study suggest that there is significant positive relationship between employer branding and executive level employees’ job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. It was therefore suggested that organization must be a great place to work in order to enable employees to feel satisfied and remain in the organization.
The Impact of Job Tension on Job Satisfaction: A Study on Executive Level Employees of the Apparel Industry in Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka
(Kelaniya Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018) Yasarathne, K.H.V.P.; Nishanthi, H.M.; Mendis, M.V.S.
Apparel industry in Sri Lanka has become major contributor to Sri Lanka’s economic development. Due to supply of low cost creative labour and organizational friendly government policies, many international apparel brands and apparel firms are outsourcing their manufacturing functions to Asian countries. Of those, Sri Lanka is a leading country where most apparel sector giants are interested to invest in. Further, in Sri Lankan context apparel sector is highly competitive as quite a number of big giants such as MAS Holdings, Brandix Apparel Lanka Ltd, Hela Clothing (Pvt) Ltd are operating in the market. Due to this high competitiveness in the industry, greater struggle is visible to attract and retain key talent. However, retaining talent has become difficult due to the job tension associated with high competitiveness. In the current study, the researchers attempt to investigate in depth the impact of job tension on job satisfaction of the executive level employees of the Apparel Industry, with special reference to Anuradhapura District. The executive level employees in three leading garment manufacturing organizations in Sri Lanka were investigated through a sample of 100 employees. Simple random sampling method was used to select the representative sample. A self-administrated structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to test the research hypotheses. The study confirmed that job tension is significantly correlated with employee job satisfaction. The findings of the study also indicated that there is a strong negative relationship between job tension and job satisfaction of executive level employees. This study directly provides a major theoretical contribution filling the gaps of former studies which were done on apparel sector. The findings and the recommendations of the current research directly addresses lot of practical issues related to job tension and job satisfaction faced by the apparel firms.
The Nexus between Employer Branding and Executive Level Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Case of AIA Insurance Lanka PLC
(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Mendis, M.V.S.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.
Employer branding has emerged as a result of the application of marketing principles to human resource management. Employer branding represents a firm’s efforts to promote, both within and outside the firm, a clear view of what makes it different and desirable as an employer. Employer branding may be a new terminology for many companies in Sri Lanka, but it is becoming more important to today’s businesses. Therefore this study was carried out to investigate the relationship between employer branding and executive level employees’ job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. The study was based on a survey conducted on a sample of seventy (70) executive level employees working at AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. Employer branding is measured by using five dimensions such as economic value, development value, social value, diversity value and reputation value. Data were gathered through questionnaire method and data analysis was performed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results of the research indicate a positive relationship between employer branding and executive level employees’ job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. Findings of this study could be used for bases of further empirical research. It is recommended to perform similar study in different organization or different industry in Sri Lanka.
Non-Usage of Personal Protective Equipment and Occupational Health and Safety Problems: A Study of Sewing Machine Operators in the Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Mendis, M.V.S.; Nandasena, K.G.D.T.
Today we are living in a knowledge economy where people became the most important asset of a company. Unlike physical assets, human assets can be developed, improved and motivated to achieve the goals and objectives of an organization. Employee health and safety management is carry out in every organization to protect their employees from harm. Motivating employees to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is done by many organizations to secure their employees’ health and safety. PPE is the equipment worn by employees to minimize exposure to variety of hazards. Most employees are aware of the benefits of PPE as well as negative outcomes of non- usage of PPE, but only few employees tend to use PPE. This study empirically evaluated two types of factors (individual factors and organizational factors) for non-usage of PPE and their likely impact on occupational health and safety problems in a leading garments manufacturing organization in Sri Lanka. The sample consisted of 92 sewing machine operators and the data were gathered by self-administrated structured questionnaires. The results indicated that individual factors for non-usage of PPE was positively and significantly correlated with occupational health and safety problems while organizational factors for non-usage of PPE was positively correlated but not significant. Results of regressing the individual and organizational factors for non-usage of PPE on occupational health and safety problems showed that individual factors for non-usage of PPE is a strong predictor of arising occupational health and safety problems.