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Item Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Undergraduates: Evidence from the Faculty of Commerce and Management, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Senanayake, S.M.S.D.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Entrepreneurship is very importance for all countries. But some people approach it without a proper understanding about it. In time, their business went bankrupt. But people with business management knowledge are less likely to do so. Hence, the main objective of this study was to identify the entrepreneurial intention of female undergraduates of the faculty of Commerce and Management, university of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka as there is a business management knowledge. This was carried out as a quantitative and conducted as the cross-sectional field study among a sample of 310 female undergraduates of the Commerce and Management faculty, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Convenience sampling was applied to select the sample. Data were collected via a standard questionnaire that met accepted standards of validity and reliability and it was distributed among female undergraduates as a Google form online. The sample data set was analyzed with aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). According to the independent t-test analysis, the family background creates a great impact on entrepreneurial intention. Although they have entrepreneurial intention through creativity and educational support, they are reluctant to start a new business due to their family background. Researcher recommends establishing a mechanism with the aid of the key research findings, to capture the entrepreneurial intention of female undergraduates before leaving the university. Therefore, female undergraduates can gain the university support to become an entrepreneur. Further, researchers would suggest the organization of entrepreneurial motivational programs to promote the parallel entrepreneurship in the university.Item Effect of COVID-19 Epidemic on Health and Safety Management Function in Apparel Sector, Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Senananda, W.H.S.G.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Human Resource Department that performs Human Resource Management (HRM) function in organizations must play a key role in fighting against coronavirus while ensuring the sound health and safety of its employees and the sound performance of other HRM functions. Apparel manufacturing industry in Sri Lanka was particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic mostly because most of the industry manufactures for exporting which had to stop because the supply chain had come to a halt. Once the country started emerging out of the pandemic, factories had re orient themselves to the ‘new normal’, which entailed COVID-19 prevention safety protocols which would be of utmost importance to safeguard health of employees. The research aims to understand the impact of COVID 19 spread on health and safety management function of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing companies as regards health and safety protocols for prevention of COVID-19 spread. This study is carried out as a qualitative exploratory research work. Further, purposive sampling was used to select the sample. This was carried out as a cross sectional descriptive study comprising of 10 respondents. Data was collected via telephone interviews and the reliability and validly was tested through thematic analysis. The themes of Conceptual Health & Safety Control, Innovative Health & Safety Control, Engineering Health & Safety Control, Administrative Health & Safety Control and Self- disciplined Workforce Control were recurring themes brought up by the respondents. The findings of this research serve as a guideline for every organization, HR practitioners and to all the health and safety practitioners in the country. It is recommended to HR, give more consideration on employee wellness, employee upskilling, identifying key employees and recognizing their efforts, employee counseling and proper communication in order to get the work done from their employees efficiently even within this turbulent period.Item Mediating Effect of Self Efficacy on the Relationship between Social Support and Employee Wellbeing: Study of Operational Level Employees in Ansell Lanka (Pvt) Limited, Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Sayanji, K.R.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Currently, manufacturing sector organizations have significant challenges, and little effort has been made by academics in Sri Lankan literature to combine social support with employee well-being among operational workers. On Ansell Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. Biyagama, the problem of this study is to investigate the current levels of social support and employee well-being, the type of relationship between social support and employee well-being, how social support affects employee well-being, and the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between social support and employee well-being. To investigate this situation, a logical strategy was used to create a hypothesis. The approach used for this includes a review of current literature and primary data linked to the study issue. A standardized and standard questionnaire was used to obtain primary data. Ansell Lanka (Pvt) Ltd used a basic random sample to perform the study. Correlation was the type of inquiry, and the temporal span was cross-sectional. Individual level analysis was the unit of analysis. Respondents in this survey were operational staff. After ensuring reliability and validity, the study's measurements were of excellent quality. A total of 120 people were surveyed. In order to test the hypothesis that was concerned with positive impact between social support and employee wellbeing. The results of the study showed a significant and positive impact between social support and employee wellbeing and hypothesis of mediation effect of self-efficacy on social support and employee wellbeing behaviors was accepted. Further, this study also supported the view that the managers of Ansell Lanka (Pvt) Ltd should get strategic steps to increase employee well-being among the employees.Item Impact of Open Office Work Environment on Employee Psychological Well-being: Study with Special Reference to the Banking Industry of Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Senanayake, R.N.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Optimizing employee psychological well-being is a must for an organization, so that it is a practice gaining more importance in organizational disciplines nowadays. However, a gap is found as per the extant literature, between the ideal condition and practical level of the employee’s workplace well-being. As the open office work environment is a novel concept to Sri Lankan banking industry, and its effects on employee psychological well-being is not well addressed yet. Hence, the current study attempts to assess the effect of open office work environment on employee psychological well-being with special reference to the banking industry in Sri Lanka. The study was quantitative and cross-sectional survey design was followed. Data was collected through a standard questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 316 executive level employees selected from three main licensed commercial banks in Sri Lanka. Primary data were analyzed using correlation and regression with the aid of SPSS and Excel. Findings revealed that the more significantly, psychological well-being is perceived by the banking sector employees to be impacted by the open office work environment, and there is a strong positive relationship between open office work environment and psychological well-being. Thus, it is concluded that open office work environment improves overall psychological well-being of employees due to advantages like allowing them to easily communicate with each other and leads to reduce the stress level for employee encountered. It is suggested that to maximize the effectiveness of open office further, organizations can take more initiatives to enhance the level of collaboration, manage the noise level, and to increase the level of privacy in the work environment. Cross-validation of the findings can be done in different industries, using quite a bigger sample in future studies.Item Impact of Workplace Mentoring on Employees' Career Development: Study of Executive Level Employees in Sanken Construction (PVT) Limited(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Sanjeewanie, B.V.S.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Mentoring is a major determinant of career development of employees. Executive level employees of a construction company are facing career limitations in Sri Lanka. However, the extant literature does not represent consistent evidence regarding the relationships between mentoring and employees’ career development. Hence, the purpose of this study is to assess the direct effect of workplace mentoring on the individuals’ career development. Current study is quantitative and conducted as a cross-sectional field study. Standard questionnaire was distributed for the target sample as a Google form-online. According to the convenience sampling technique, final sample remains at 104 observations of executives in Sanken Constructions (Pvt) Ltd. The sample data set was analyzed through validity and reliability analysis, normality and linearity analysis and correlation and regression analysis with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). It is found that there is a moderate positive correlation in between the mentoring and career development of employees. Further, findings present that mentoring significantly impacts on the individuals’ career development. It validate the concept of mentoring has greater involvement in career development of employees. Organizations can survive and attain business success with embedded mentoring programs into their organizational culture. Career shocks and career stagnations of employees can be overcome through the mentoring. Other than that employees can be promoted, offered higher salaries. Having considering whole study, it is recommended for future researchers to enrich this study by using the probability sampling technique for selecting the bigger sample than the existing one. Further, they can conduct their new construct through longitudinal study across the industries and organizations for better results.Item Determinants of Interns’ Satisfaction: Study with Special Reference to Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) Samendra, L.P. J.R.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Internship training has become an integral part of degree programs in many state and private universities. While much of the world is focused on internship training, little attention has been paid to interns’ satisfaction. However, interns’ satisfaction is an integral part to achieve the desired results from an internship program. Therefore, the current study attempts to examine, the determinants of interns’ satisfaction of Commerce and Management undergraduates in University of Kelaniya. In addition to that, this study intends to contribute to fill the literature gap by investigating into the associations between the determinants; university support, job characteristics, working environment, contextual factors and interns’ satisfaction. Hence, this was a quantitative, cross-sectional study in which primary data were collected through Google Forms by using probability sampling technique. Correlation and simple regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. Findings reveal a significant positive impact of university support, job characteristics, working environment and contextual factors on interns’ satisfaction and it is found that there is a significant relationship between university support, job characteristics, working environment, contextual factors and the interns’ satisfaction respectively. Accordingly, it is concluded that, if there is satisfaction in any of these four factors (university support, job characteristics, working environment, and contextual factors) the interns will be retained in that organization. The study results clearly underlined that, if the right and preferred methodologies are being adopted in internships, interns will be able to obtain a greater level of satisfaction from the internship. Furthermore, this study raises the need for stakeholders to look at the determinants on interns’ satisfaction in a more serious and holistic approach.Item Key Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention of Non-Undergraduate School Leavers in Sri Lanka(Department of of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2020) De Silva, H.L.P.; Weerasinghe, T.D.Entrepreneurs are more important for Sri Lanka as a developing country. The main objective of the study was to identify the key determinants of the entrepreneurial intention of non-undergraduate school leavers in Sri Lanka. There has been a lack of concern about the future of school leavers who will not enter the higher education system. Therefore, this study will facilitate identifying the key determinants of non-undergraduate school leavers in Sri Lanka. This was carried out as a cross-sectional field study among a sample of 132 non-undergraduate school leavers in Sri Lanka. Further, the researcher interviewed 27 respondents out of those 132. Convenience sampling was applied to select the sample. Data were collected via a standard questionnaire that met accepted standards of validity and reliability. Descriptive statistics, simple ranking, thematic analysis were used to analyze data. It is found that the economic condition of the country, preference to the field from childhood, being independent, and job dissatisfaction stimulates the entrepreneurial intention while the intention of going forward in career life reduces the entrepreneurial intention. Analysis of factors which were found through previous literature reveals that familyrelated factors are more influential on entrepreneurial intention than person-related factors. As most of the respondents don’t implement their entrepreneurial ideas even they have the intention, the researcher recommends establishing a mechanism with the aid of the key research findings to capture the entrepreneurial intention of school leavers before leaving the school. Further, data gathered through the mechanism can be linked with business units, financial institutions, and government. Therefore, non-undergraduate school leavers can gain external support to become an entrepreneur. As some individuals are interested in being an entrepreneur while engaging in a job, most importantly, it is recommended to prepare and implement relevant policies to promote parallel entrepreneurship in the country.Item The Relationship between Pressure on Employees’ Social Life and Retention Intension: Moderating Effects of Age Group and Gender(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Weerawardhana, R.D.L.M.,; Weerasinghe, T.D.In a modern organizational culture employee pressure on social life is a silent area that affects to major decisions of an employee. Many researchers investigated social life pressure in various contexts other than employment. Hence, the major aim of the present study is to investigate the relational interaction among pressure on social life of employees’ and retention intension with the moderating effects of age and gender. Further, specifically to provide the directions to the organization about addressing issues of employees’ social life. The primary data was collected from 160 employees working in public and private sector organizations in western province, Sri Lanka at the convenience of the researcher by using a standard questionnaire that was distributed via printed on paper. The valid data was analyzed with the support of SPSS drawing correlation, regression and descriptive statistics. It is found that positive moderate relationship between pressure on employees’ social life and retention intension. Moreover, age and gender significantly controls the impact of pressure on employees’ social life on retention intension. The present study would provide the directions to HR policy makers, employees’, supervisors and future researchers.Item The Impact of Leadership Style of Superior on Job Performance of Subordinates: A Study of the Employees of Geological Survey & Mines Bureau(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Weerasinghe, N.A.W.D.,; Weerasinghe, T.D.Even though there are many evidences about how leadership style effect on employee performance in the world, is reported the government sector of Sri Lanka context is little investigated about this. The main objective of current study was to assess the effect of superior leadership style (transformational, transactional and laissez-faire) on job performance of employees in Geological Survey & Mines Bureau. Which is a leading government organization. The study was quantitative, and a cross-sectional survey design was followed. The primary data was collected through a standard questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 119 employees working in Geological Survey & Mines Bureau of Sri Lanka. The collected data were analyzed with the support of SPSS. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used for data analysis. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used to assess both relationships and effects as per the hypotheses of the study. It is found that transformational, transactional and laissez fair leadership styles positively correlated with employees' job performance. Moreover, result shows that, there is a significant impact of transformational, transactional and laissez fair leadership styles on employees' job performance. According to the finding, with the combinations of the leadership styles the leaders can enhance employees' performance of the organization. Therefore, it is recommended that mix of leadership styles is most suitable than leadership styles act as separately.Item The Nexus between Work-Family Conflicts and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Study of Executive Level Employees in the Banking Sector of Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Wariyapperuma, W.A.A.I.P.,; Weerasinghe, T.D.The purpose of this study was to assess the nexus between work family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior in the banking sector in Sri Lanka. This study is carried out as a quantitative explanatory research work. Further, the sample is selected randomly and used simple random sampling technique. This is a cross-industry descriptive research & standard questionnaire was used to collect primary data through a survey. Questionnaires are distributed to a sample of 185 of executive employees who are currently working in banks. To analyze received questionnaires data, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) was used. To interpret data analyzed and to obtain the result graphical charts, descriptive statistical techniques such as mean, mode, standard deviation and also histograms, correlation and coefficient, simple regression analysis and residual analysis were used. To test the relationship between variables Pearson correlation technique analysis was used. Simple regression analysis was used to identify the degree of the impact of the independent variable on dependent variable was analyzed by using R square value. And also, it was found to be that there is a significant moderate negative relationship between work family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior. Courtesy and Sportsmanship are the dimensions of dependent variable and they were only significant and others were insignificant with the work family conflict. The present study would provide the direction to HR policy makers, employees, supervisors and to future researchers.
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