Browsing by Author "Senarath, S.A.C.L."

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Financial liberalization- “The Correct Sequence”: A Sri Lankan perspective
(University of Kelaniya, 2014) Patabendige, S.S.J.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Impact of Human Resource Management Practices and Culture on Promoting Academic Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Perera, L.N.S.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Academic entrepreneurship has been identified as the third mission for the universities, and recognized that there are opportunities for earning extra income through commercialization of university research and innovations. Many universities in the world adopt different academic entrepreneurship strategies and to promote them internal organizational environment has a major influence. Specially the human resources management practices and the entrepreneurial culture of the universities. Sri Lanka is a developing nation interesting in promoting academic entrepreneurship in public universities. In promoting academic entrepreneurship in these universities, authorities needs to identify how the internal environment will impact on it from Sri Lankan context. However, there is a lacuna of research which have been done to identify this relationship. This study intends to fill this gap by identifying the impact of present human resource management practices and university cultural on promoting academic entrepreneurship strategies adopted by the public universities in Sri Lanka. The study used deductive methodology and developed two declarative hypotheses on human resource management systems and organizational culture to identify its impact on entrepreneurial strategies adopted by universities in Sri Lankan. This quantitative study was conducted using four public universities in the western province, Sri Lanka. Primary data were used for the analysis and the primary data collected through structured questionnaires and interviews. Finally, outcomes of this research identified that human resource management systems and organizational culture contribute to promote academic entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka public universities.
Impact of internal governance on creating entrepreneurial universities: a study based on Sri Lankan universities
(University of Kelaniya, 2016) Perera, L.N.S.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Becoming an entrepreneurial university is the key strategy that needs to be adopted by public universities at present. When becoming an entrepreneurial university they need to adopt innovative and entrepreneurial approaches in the provision of their products and services and develop partnerships, networks and other relationships with public and private organizations. To adopt for all these internal governance structure (university structure and leadership) of the public universities plays a key role. This research intends to identify how far Sri Lankan public universities organizational structure and entrepreneurial leadership behavior has supported on becoming entrepreneurial universities. The study has developed two hypothesis and primary data collected from four public universities has been analyzed through regression analysis. Finally, outcomes of this research identified that university structure has a significant negative impact in the process of becoming an entrepreneurial university as well as entrepreneurial leadership behavior is still lacking from Sri Lankan context.
Impact of Service Quality Dimensions on Student Satisfaction: A Study Based On Commerce and Management Faculties of Public Sector Higher Education Institutions in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2014) Wasala, W.M.N.K.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Public sector higher education institutes in Sri Lanka are in a close competition in recent years in order to offer high quality services and achieve higher national and International rank. But quality in higher education is a complex and multifaceted concept and a single appropriate definition of quality is lacking. Every stakeholder in higher education has a particular view of quality depending on their specific needs. But out of these stakeholders, students' perception of quality is more prominent than others. Since positive perceptions of service quality can lead to student satisfaction and satisfied students may attract new students through word-of-mouth communication and return them to the university to take further courses. Therefore, this study investigates the relationship between student satisfaction over the service quality dimensions offered by Commerce & Management Faculties of the public sector universities in Sri Lanka. The research will be conducted using the HERDPERF service quality model and six declarative hypotheses will be developed for the dimensions chosen and tested through correlation analysis. Finally the outcomes of the results concluded that all five aspects are positively correlated with the student satisfaction and academic aspect and reputation has a strong relationship toward student satisfaction.
Performance Appraisal System and Employee Productivity: A study based on selected State Banks in Gampaha District
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Myral, P.D.A.K.N.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Performance appraisal is one of the most important human resource practices in organizations which help to assess the employees and enhance their performance. However, there are various problems pertaining to performance appraisal systems in organizations especially with regards to the public sector. Though there are research conducted on performance evaluation and employed productivity there is a lacuna of research with regards to public banking sector. This research intends to fill this gap by identify the relationship between performance appraisal system and the productivity of the employees of two state banks. Further study aims to identify the drawbacks of the existing appraisal systems of state banks and how to improve it to enhance the productivity of the employees. Primary data was collected from 95 respondents from both banks using two types of structured questionnaires. One questionnaire will be distributed among the employees to know their views of the current performance appraisal system of their bank and the other for the managers in order to know their views on internal service quality of their employees based on the performance appraisal carried out in the previous year i.e. 2015. The simple random sampling method was used to select the respondents and data will be analyzed through SPSS version 24 by using multiple regression analyzing tool. It is hoped that this study will primarily be important for state banks and they will be in a position to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current performance appraisal system and to improve the systems while considering it as a tool to improve the productivity of the employees. Also this study may be of assistance to all other public sector organizations in Sri Lanka in general for the purpose of improving their performance appraisal systems.
Promoting Entrepreneurship for Development: A Study based on Status of Employment Data in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Senarath, S.A.C.L.
Currently a high emphasis has been given to promote entrepreneurship as a policy instrument to acquire a rapid increase in employment generation, income creation and poverty alleviation in almost all the countries. Accordingly, Sri Lanka too has attached a considerable importance to promote this area in formulating its development policies, and already taken a number of steps for creating more entrepreneurs. However, in most of the deliberations, the need of the entrepreneurial development is discussed theoretically without even reviewing the success so far achieved based on the relevant national wide data in the economy. Nevertheless, this study, going against this conventional wisdom, attempts are made to analyze more rationally why entrepreneurship should be promoted based on the analysis of status of employment data available in Sri Lanka with catching its development so far achieved. Accordingly, the study found that the formal sectors’ labor absorption has reduced from 64.7% in 1991 to 58.7% in 2013 while that of informal sector has increased from 35.6% to 41.3% in the corresponding period on account of not expanding the entrepreneur category in the employment structure of the economy, beholding a higher level of unemployment for the more educated youths as substantiated by the available official data which indicates that open unemployment for the educated youths is as twice as that of lower level educated persons. The current study shows that percentage of the size of employers or the successful entrepreneurs compared to those of other sectors’ has been stagnated at inadequate low level around 2 to 3 percent of the employed over the study period, and this fact highlights the failure of the country’s attempts so far made to increase entrepreneurs, and why entrepreneurship should be really promoted in order to increase employment generation, income growth and poverty alleviation for the economy. Also, the study concludes suggesting more elaborative ways and means for increasing the size of the volume of employers or successful entrepreneurs to acquire a rapid increase in employment generation, income creation and poverty alleviation for the economy.