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    The Impact of Welfare Facilities on Employee Retention: A Study of Operative Level Employees in the Apparel Industry
    (5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Maduwanthi, M. A. N.; Padmasiri, M. K. D.
    The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of welfare facilities on the employee retention of operative level employees in apparel industry in Sri Lanka. The study was quantitative and a cross-sectional survey design was followed. Data were collected using convenience sampling technique and 120 operation level employees who are working in the selected apparel organization were selected. The data were analyzed using the computer based statistical data analysis package, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) and Correlation and Regression analysis were used as analytical tools. Findings of the study revealed that employee welfare facilities positively and significantly impact on employee retention and there is a positive relationship between employee welfare facilities and employee retention. As a significant factor, welfare facilities should be enriched by the management to retain employees in the organization
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    The Impact of Internal Communication on Job Satisfaction: A Study of Executive Level Employees in Apparel Industry
    (5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Madushani, K. D.; Sangarandeniya, Y. M. S. W. V.
    The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of internal communication on job satisfaction of the executive level employees in a company operates in the apparel sector in Sri Lanka. Further it was focused to identify which internal communication method has the higher impact on job satisfaction. For this study, researcher randomly selected 70 the executive employees from a company operates in the apparel sector in Sri Lanka. To analyze the collected data, different analytical methods used such as descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis. The correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationship of internal communication as well as the sub-variables of internal communication with job satisfaction. Regression analysis was used to identify the impact of internal communication on the job satisfaction and to further analysis to identify the most significant sub-variables of internal communication which impact on the job satisfaction. Correlation results shows that there is a positive strong relationship between internal communication and job satisfaction. Moreover, the regression results indicates that internal communication significantly influencing job satisfaction
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    The Impact of Perceived Organizational Support on Employee Engagement of Sewing Machine Operators of Polytex Garments (Pvt) Ltd at Ja- Ela in Sri Lanka
    (5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) De Alwis, R. A. S. J. N.; Devadas, U.M.
    The purpose of this study was to test identify the impact of perceived organizational support on employee engagement of sewing machine operators in apparel industry with special reference Polytex garments (Pvt) Ltd. In deciding the sample size of this research the researcher used 70 operational level employees for the sample. Primary data were used to test the hypothesis of this study. Primary data were collected through standard questionnaire given to sewing machine operators. The data which collected from the questionnaire, analyzed descriptively using tables, frequencies and percentages. Simple linear regression analysis was used for data analysis. Results indicate that there is a positive impact of perceived organizational support on employee engagement. An engaged employee cares about their work and about the performance of the company and they want to feel that their efforts could make a difference. Based on these findings it is recommended to improve relationship through manager support as well as team mate’s support which will improve the social network of employee to coordinate effective leadership and build up physical environment for enhance employee engagement through organization support
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    Impact of Internal Communication on Employee Engagement: An Empirical Investigation of Operational Level Employees in the Apparel Industry
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Chamindi, T.D.K.H.; Welmilla, I.
    Employee engagement is an important phenomenon in present human resource management concepts which emphasis that engaged employees in the organization are rather involved in their work effectively and efficiently. Most of the organizations today has identified importance of labor force when achieving their organizational goals. Therefore employee engagement is also an influential factor that an organization should concern since it has contiguous impact on employee turnover, absenteeism as well as productivity or outcome of employees. There are many constituents which influence engagement of employees out of which this research has focused on the relationship between internal communication and employee engagement since there has only been a of researches concentrated solely on the mentioned subjects in Sri Lankan context. Researcher has selected lower level employees involved in apparel industry as population for the research out of which researcher has taken 100 employees as sample. A questionnaire was distributed among them for the survey which enabled researcher to identify dimensions to measure internal communication and employee engagement while referring to the past written history and discussions with employees. Accordingly researcher has developed hypothesis such as there is a significant relationship between internal communication and employee engagement and there is a significant impact of internal communication on employee engagement. Researcher conducted correlation analysis, regression analysis and descriptive statistics in order to testing the hypothesis. There revealed that there were positive moderate statistically significant relationships with internal communication and employee engagement. Therefore both alternative hypothesis were accepted under 5% confidence level. In conclusion, it could be highlighted the importance of internal communication strategy to the organizations. Specially for engaging lower level employees in apparel industry.