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Item THE IMPACT OF WORK FROM HOME ON EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF A SELECTED IT SECTOR COMPANY OF ABC (PVT) LTD IN SRI LANKA(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Madhuwanthi, U.D.S.H.; Weerakkody, W.A.S.The spread of the stay-at-home policy was because it was the best strategy to avoid physical contact in the workplace and prevent the spread of COVID-19. In order to maintain the economic status of the country, many countries around the world finally adopted this measure, and the Sri Lankan government also implemented the social distancing policy.Therefore, various organizations decided to implement the concept of working from home, even though this is new to many Sri Lankans. Therefore, examining the status of working from home to examine how it affects employee satisfaction and performance and recommending suggestions to improve the results of the employees has also been done through this research.ABC (Pvt) Ltd, a selected IT company in Sri Lanka, conducted this study. The conceptual model was tested based on data collected through a structured questionnaire pretested by an online survey with a sample of 55 employees at the same level.According to the analysis, it can be concluded that working from home has a positive effect on the job satisfaction and performance of the employees of this company. And this gives significant insights to IT companies implementing work from home and already inItem Impact of Job Satisfaction on Job Performance of Non-Executive Employees in Hotel Industry: With Special Reference to Kalutara District, Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Perera, M.D.S.H.; Weerakkody, W.A.S.Currently all organizations recognize that they can gain competitive advantage in the market place only if these organizations have employees who possess positive work related attitudes. Job satisfaction is one of the most important attitudinal factors on job performance. This study measured the impact of job satisfaction on job performance of non-executive employees in the hotel industry (star hotels) in the Kalutara district, Sri Lanka. On the scenario of continuous discussions on challenges faced by hotel industry in Sri Lanka, human involvement is yet to be considered as a significant organizational factor. There are several human resource glitches in hotel industry. It has made a vast impediment to minimize the effort of achieving organizational objectives in the hotel industry. The data were collected from a stratified randomly selected sample of 250 non -executive employees in the hotel industry (star hotels) by administrating a structured questionnaire, which consisted of 38 questions/statements along a 5 points scale. The data analyses consist of correlation and regression. Findings reveal that, job satisfaction was correlated with job performance of non-executive employees. Also there was an impact of job satisfaction on job performance of non-executive employees. Based on the findings valuable suggestions are provided to the managements of hotel industry in the Kalutara district, Sri Lanka to minimize the existing issues.Item Impact of Administrative Practices on Job Performance: With Reference to Public Banks in Sri Lanka(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing., 2015) Jayarathna, D.Y.; Weerakkody, W.A.S.To attain a competitive advantage and remain in the competitive market, organizations should focus on the employee job performance significantly. Achieving the Job performance of the employees has been a critical issue in both private and public sector organizations. Hence it is needed to investigate how the practices of the public banks in Sri Lanka, affect the job performance of their employees. Thus the objective of this research was to investigate the impact of administrative practices on job performance of the public banks in Sri Lanka. The independent variable was administrative practices, with two sub variables named Reward Management and Decision Making and the dependent variable was job performance. The reliability of the instruments were tested against the survey data. This study was engaged in hypothesis testing and it was corelational. This research was conducted in the natural environment where work proceeds normally, with less interference of the researchers (noncontrived). Data was collected from each individual: employees of the public banks, and the study was cross sectional. The analysis was based on the information collected using a self administered questionnaire from 92 Managerial, Executive and Non Executive employees doing a variety of jobs in the Public Banks in Colombo District. Data used for analysis were totally based on primary data which was collected using a questionnaire developed by the researcher. The analysis was done by simple regression models using the software SPSS 15.0. According to the results, there is an impact on administrative practices on job performance, but it is not significant. Based on that it can be concluded employee‘s job performance have been impacted by administrative practices, and the job performance can be improved by developing the administrative practices.Item Impact of Attitudinal Factors on Job Performance of Non-Executive Employees in Hotel Industry: With Reference to Kalutara District(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, M.D.S.H.; Weerakkody, W.A.S.Nowadays all organizations have recognized the notion that the fact that an organization can gain competitive advantage in market place only if it has employees who possess positive work related attitudes. The study was made to measure the impact of attitudinal factors on job performance of non-executive employees in hotel industry (star hotels) in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka. On the scenario of continuous discussions on challenges faced by hotel industry in Sri Lanka, human involvement is yet to be considered as a significant organizational element. There are several human resources problems in hotel industry. Some going abroad for high salaries, lack of skillful employees in the hotel industry etc., which have made a huge obstruction to minimize the effort of the achieving organizational objectives in the hotel industry. All the positions (designations) in non- executive employee category of human resources have a significant role to play in maintaining the highest labor productivity in this sector. However the available literature does not provide enough empirical evidence with regard to the impact of attitudinal factors on job performance of non-executive employees in hotel industry (star hotels) in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study empirically investigated three attitudinal variables, which could influence on the job performance of the non-executive employees in the hotel industry. The data were collected from a stratified randomly selected sample of 100 non -executive employees in the hotel industry (star hotels) in Kalutara district Sri Lanka by administrating a structured questionnaire, which consisted of 61 questions/statements with 5 points scale. The data analyses included Correlation, Multiple Regression and Simple Regression analyses. According to the findings of the study, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were correlated with job performance of non-executive employees but job involvement was not correlated with job performance of non-executive employees in this sector. There was an impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on job performance of non-executive employees but job involvement was not impact on job performance of non-executive employees in hotel industry in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka. Especially job satisfaction and organizational commitment should be considered to enhance the performance of non-executive employees in this industry as an attitudinal factors. Based on the findings valuable suggestions were provided to the managements of hotel industry in Kalutara district Sri Lanka to achieve sustainable competitive advantage through people.