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Item Impact of Job Designing on Psychological Contract of Employees: A Case Study of a leading Service Providing Organization in Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Fernando, M.N.D.; Gamage, P.N.The purpose of this study was to assess the Impact of Job Designing on the Psychological Contract of Employees with Special Reference to a Selected Organization of the Service Sector. As a based model Job Characteristics Model developed by Halckman and Oldham (1974) was used in lining with the studies about psychological contract developed by Rousseau (1995). Although, there has been little integrative research that has examined psychological contracts in combination with job designing. This study is carried out as quantitative descriptive research work. Further, the sample is selected randomly and used simple random sampling techniques on an individual basis. A standard questionnaire was used to collect primary data through a survey. Questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 140 clerical and above employees who are currently working in the selected organization. To test the relationship between variables, Pearson correlation analysis was used. Simple regression analysis was used to identify the impact of the independent variable on the dependent variable. And also, it was found to be that there is a significant strong positive relationship between job designing and the psychological contract of the employees. Relational impact and transactional impact are the dimensions of the dependent variable, and they were only significant, and others were insignificant with the work psychological contract. The present study would provide the direction to HR policymakers, employees, employers and academia, and future researchers in decision making.Item Impact of Students' Politics on Academic Performance Evidence from Undergraduates of National Universities in Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Dushmantha, P.H.P.; Gamage, P.N.In the higher education context in Sri Lanka, government universities have a greater responsibility to produce more productive and effective undergraduates to society. The higher education system's quality disruption is caused by the student's engagement with student union activities. In that case, the government, university administration, and society suffer from poor knowledgeable, and unskilled undergraduates arriving from government universities. In this research study, the researcher investigates four major factors, the family background of the undergraduates, the university environment, difficulties faced by the undergraduates, and undergraduate sports involvement in university, which significantly cause student union engagement in national universities. It was found that family background, university environment, difficulties faced by the undergraduates, and sports participation of the undergraduate influence students' involvement in university politics. Ultimately, union involvement significantly impacts the undergraduate's academic performance, which was confirmed by results generated through the omnibus model of the test. This study's findings provide insights for university administration, parents, and primary and secondary school teachers to develop more productive and effective undergraduate through national universities in Sri Lanka.Item Impact of Mindfulness on Work-life Balance: A Study of Executive Level Employees in Central Bank of Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Dilshani, S.S.; Gamage, P.N.Mindfulness is a well-studied phenomenon in many studies. Although the direct effect of mindfulness on work-life balance is well-documented, previous empirical findings of the relationship have been inconsistent. Thereby, the current research examines the impact of mindfulness on Executive Level Employees' work-life balance in the Central bank of Sri Lanka. The study was quantitative, and the cross-sectional survey design was followed. To conduct this research, primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to measure the two variables, which were mindfulness and work-life balance of the executive level employees. The simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consists of 100 executive level employees who are currently working in the Central bank of Sri Lanka. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. Further, to interpret the analyzed data and to obtain the results, graphical charts, descriptive statistical techniques such as mean, mode, standard deviation, and also correlation coefficient, simple regression analysis, and residual analysis were used. Also, to test the relationship between variables, Pearson correlation technique analysis was used. Simple regression analysis was used to identify the degree of the independent variable's impact on the dependent variable was analyzed by using the R square value. Accordingly, it was found that there is a significant moderate positive relationship between mindfulness and work-life balance. Hence, the present study would provide the direction to HR policy makers, employees, managers, and future researchers.Item Impact of Gender Dominance of Occupations on Career Choice of Undergraduates: Evidence from a National University in Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Dias, J.S.; Gamage, P.N.The current study aims to examine the effect of gender dominance of occupations on the career choice of undergraduates by taking a sample of 113 undergraduates from the University of Kelaniya who are studying in their third and fourth years in different faculties. Primary data were collected through an online survey, and the convenience sampling technique was used in selecting the sample. Moreover, the current study was conducted as a quantitative study following a hypothetico-deductive approach together with a cross-sectional survey design. The collected data were analyzed with the aid of SPSS statistical software. To interpret the analyzed data and to obtain the results, graphical charts, descriptive statistical techniques such as mean, mode, standard deviation, and also correlation coefficient, simple regression analysis, and residual analysis were used. Pearson correlation technique analysis was used to test the relationship between variables. Simple regression analysis was used to identify the degree of the impact of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Findings revealed that gender dominance of occupations is positively related to career choice as well as gender dominance of occupations significantly impacts career choice. Hence, it is concluded by proving that undergraduates still show a greater interest in choosing occupations where their own gender is represented to a greater extent. They stereotype occupations as feminine and masculine further. The present study would provide the direction to undergraduates, employees, organizations, HR policymakers, and prospective researchers.Item Work Life Balance and Employees' Job Performance: A Case Study of Leading Public Sector Commercial Bank in Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) De Silva, S.L.T.L.,; Gamage, P.N.The main purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of work life balance on job performance of managerial level employees in one of the leading public sector commercial banks in Sri Lanka. This study further investigates the impact of Time, Involvement and Satisfaction balance (three components of the work life balance) on employee job performance. The study was quantitative and a cross-sectional survey and data were collected through a structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 102 managerial level employees in selected public sector commercial bank, head office in Sri Lanka. The data were analyzed using SPSS (Version 23.0). In order to test the hypotheses correlation and regression were used. The statistical results of the study revealed that work life balance and its components of Involvement, Time and Satisfaction balance have a significant impact on employees’ job performance and the research findings give evidence that the better work life balance of the employee’s leads to increase employees job performance. Hence, this study can be basically beneficial to the public sector commercial banks in Sri Lanka to make policies and procedures related to employees.Item The Effect of Supervisor’s Participative Leadership Style on Employees Job Satisfaction: A Case of Brandix Apparel Solutions(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) De Silva, K.D.U.J; Gamage, P.N.The study aims to examine the effect of the supervisor’s participative leadership style on employee job satisfaction of one of the leading apparel companies in Sri Lanka. In order to carry out the study, 102 operational level employees were selected from Brandix Apparel Solutions for the statistical analysis of this research. A standard questionnaire was distributed in order to gather data from the operational level employees. Correlation and regression analysis were used to test hypotheses. The statistical results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between supervisor participative leadership style and employee’s job satisfaction.Item The Impact of Formal and Informal Mentoring on Employee’s Job Performance: A Study of Executive Level Employee in Hand and Arm Protection Solution Manufacturing Industry in Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Damayanthi, R.M.D.I.,; Gamage, P.N.Mentoring is one of the human resource development strategies that used mutual desire for development towards career goals and objectives. It is a long-term process that is developmental, career-focused and covers all life structures, mainly, to the identification and development of potential for the whole person. The mentoring process can be taken place formal or informal. This research is an attempt to identify the combined effect of formal and informal mentoring on employee job performance with special reference of hand and arm protection solution manufacturing industry in Sri Lanka. The sample of the study was randomly selected 80 executive employees. Data analyzed by using Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and simple linear regression with the support of SPSS 23 version. The structured questionnaire was administered to gather information. The statistical results showed that there is a strong positive significant relationship between formal and informal mentoring with employee job performance.Item The Impact of Work-Life Balance on Employee Performance: A Study of Machine Operators in a Selected Apparel Manufacturing Firm(Department of Human Resource Management, 2019) Chethani, D.M.U.; Gamage, P.N.This study attempts to identify the impact of work-life balance on employee performance among machine operators in selected apparel manufacturing firm in Sri Lanka. Time balance, Involvement balance and Satisfaction balance were the dimensions of work-life balance of this study. The data were collected from a sample of 94 machine operator employees in selected apparel manufacturing firm in Sri Lanka with a structured questionnaire, which consisted of 40 statements with five point Likert scale. Type of investigation was correlation and it was cross-sectional on time horizon. The data analysis included univariate and bivariate analysis methods. According to the finding, it is substantiated that there is a positive impact of work-life balance on employee performance among machine operators in selected apparel manufacturing firm in Sri Lanka.Item The Impact of Psychological Contract on Employee Retention Intention: A Study of a Selected Apparel Company in Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, 2019) Bandara, Y.M.U.K.Y.; Gamage, P.N.The biggest challenge that organizations are facing today is not only attracting the best talents but also retaining them for a long term because of the increased competition in the market. It is very much important to understand the mutual obligations between employer and employee. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between psychological contract and employee retention in a selected apparel company in Sri Lanka. The study was quantitative and cross-sectional survey design was followed. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire. Convenience sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 59 executive level and managerial level employees from an apparel company in Sri Lanka. The data were analyzed using the SPSS (Version 23.0). The hypotheses of the study were validated using correlation and regression analysis. The statistical results revealed that there is a moderate positive relationship between psychological contract and employee retention as well as there is a significant impact of psychological contract on employee retention.Item Career Expectations of Generation Y: Case of Management Undergraduates of National Universities in Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Fernando, K.H.K.; Gamage, P.N.The main purpose of this study is to identify the main career expectations characterized in Management Undergraduates of Generation Y in the Sri Lankan context based on final year undergraduates of three major Management Faculties in Sri Lanka. Further, the research tries to compare the findings with western world findings to see whether there is a similarity of career expectations between Sri Lankan Generation Y and Western world’s Generation Y. Present Study was done using a convenient sample of 100 undergraduates of three major Management faculties: University of Sri Jayewardenepura, University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya. A questionnaire designed by the author associating Broadbridge, Maxwell, & Ogden (2007) work which summarizes an array of Generation Y career expectations under four categories found in the popular researches those had been carried out till 2007 was used to collect data from a stratified random sample. The findings of the current research shows that career expectations of Management Undergraduates of Sri Lankan Y Generation have both similarities and differences compared to the generalized career expectations found in Broadbridge et al. (2007) work. And the findings did not show substantial differences with respect to gender but researcher showed that there is a significant difference of career expectations based on their upbringing stages of lives and the professional qualifications. Future research must focus in doing an exploratory study based on pure Sri Lankan sources without associating European famous researches to identify whether there are especial expectations inherent to Sri Lankan Y generation those have not been highlighted in European studies. And it is suggested that similar researches should be done using more heterogeneous Generation Y samples and using larger samples to see if the outcomes change.