2nd Student Symposium - 2015
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Item The Impact of Employee Job Stress on Job Satisfaction of Non- Executive Employees at MAS Holding(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Tennakoon, T.M.K.I.; Sangarandeniya, Y.M.S.W.V.Job stress is considered as a condition which arises when realizes the pressure on them or requirements of situations are wider than they can handle, and if these requirements are huge and continue for a long period of time. The study intended to identify the impact of job stress on job satisfaction of the studied sample. Satisfaction can be defined as the positive emotional reactions and attitude an individual has towards his job. A random sample of sixty non-executives are given a questionnaire to ascertain the impact of job stress on their job satisfaction. The Sample was selected from a garment manufacturing factory belonging to Mas Holdings (Casual Line). Job stress of these employees was measured on six dimensions such as heavy workload, role ambiguity, time pressure, shift work, supervisory style and social support. The job satisfaction was measured on five dimensions such as work itself, pay, promotion, supervision, co-workers, working condition. Questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS (Statistic Package for the Social Science) method. According to the correlation analysis, correlation coefficient between independent variable and dependent variable is - 0.396 (p = 0.002) and it was revealed that there is a negative relationship between employee job stress and satisfaction. According to the regression analysis, there is a 13.9% impact of job stress on job satisfaction and it indicates that there is a significant negative impact of employee job stress on job satisfaction.Item Effect of Health and Safety Practices on Job Satisfaction of Field Employees in Ceylon Electricity Board, Area Office in Gampaha(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, H.D.W.; Sangarandeniya, Y.M.S.W.V.Occupational health and safety practices are one of key functions under Human Resource Management. The primary objective of health and safety practices is, to provide employee freedom from physical and emotional illness and to protect employees from injuries caused by work related accidents. Health and safety practices can be affected to other outcomes such as high employee morale, high job satisfaction, decrease absenteeism and increase productivity. Ceylon Electricity Board Gampaha area office is one of a branch; which is responsible to electricity power distribution. The management is highly concern on to provide better health and safety practices for field employees, because of the high risk physical working situations with related to their job. They have to bear huge financial expenditure on health and safety practices as well. The management is very much interested in identifying whether there is an effect of health and safety practices on job satisfaction of field employees. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to identify the effect of health and safety practices on job satisfaction. The researcher started the study by going through relevant literature. Then data were collected from 60 field employees through a self-administered questionnaire, which was developed on five point Likert scale. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used to analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient and simple regression analysis aided in the analysis of data. Findings suggested that there was a significant weak positive relationship between health and safety practices and job satisfaction (R = 0.299); and the regression analysis revealed (R2 = 0.089) that health and safety practices could explain the variation of 8.9% of job satisfaction. In sum, this study indicated the significant positive effect of health and safety practices on job satisfaction.