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Item Personality Dimensions as Predictors of Job Satisfaction Of IT Employees in Sri Lanka(2011) Ubayachandra, E.G.; Silva, H.W.N.S.Under this study an attempt was made to investigate into relationship existing between personality dimensions and job satisfaction of IT employees attached to leading companies in Sri Lanka. For this purpose, four companies namely Ind. And financial system Sri Lanka ltd, Millennium Software Ltd, John Keels Computer service (pvt) Ltd, and Virtusa (pvt) Ltd. For the convenience of analysis, a sample consisting of 125 employees were selected by using simple random sample technique. Out of these four companies 32 employees were selected from Millennium Software Ltd. while 31 employees per each of other three companies were selected for the analysis. As this study is empirical in nature, a great attempt was made to collect primary data as much as possible by administering a detailed questionnaire which was subjected to a pilot study with a view to clarify reliability and validity of questions. In addition, further information was collected through a series of interviews held with senior management and other low level employees. For collecting additional information an endeavor was made to associate secondary data too. For this purpose, related documentary evidences such as electronically stored data /data mining were used. The focal problem of the study is existence of number of bottlenecks in software development industry in Sri Lanka. The key purpose of the study was to examine the correlation between personality dimensions and job satisfaction. Specific objectives were to identify the correlation between job performance and job satisfaction and to make a better set of suggestions to improve job performance and job satisfaction through the development of personality. Accordingly two research questions consistent with so-called objectives were addressed. They are, is there any relationship between personality dimensions and job satisfaction? What is the relationship between job performance and job satisfaction? The Big-Five personality dimensions were applied to conceptualize the respective theme of the study. For presenting data out of the descriptive statistical tools percentage values, mean, mode and standard deviation were used. Furthermore, in testing hypotheses the well known chi-square test was completely employed. Resulting from the analysis it was found that there is a direct relationship between personality dimensions and job satisfaction of IT employees in Sri Lankan leading companies. The most significant finding is that emotional stability, extraversion and consciousness dimensions are consistently valid predictors for all job categories there. All these dimensions are positively correlated with job satisfaction. And also it was noted that job performance and job satisfaction are almost interrelated each other.Item Are Financial Benefits Superior to Non- Financial Benefits? Evidence form Harischandra Mills PLC(2011) Galhena, B.L.; Ranjana, K.A.P.In order to compete with the cmpetittors and gaining sustain competitive advantages over them, well motivated, value driven human resources has become an essential element in today?s dynamic and competitive organizational context.This leads to create a crtical human resource issue that attracting and retaining the commited, talented, ans enthusiastic employees with the organization. Most commonly used strategy in this respect is that offering and maintaintg attractive benefits package. Many of the firms spend significant amount of money on developing and implementing such an emplyee benefits program. This paper investigates the relationships between employee benefit program and work related variables namely job satisfaction, organizational commitment, intention to quit and job stress with special reference to Harischandra Mills PLC, Sri Lanka. Further, impact of, gender, civil status, educational level and tenure, salary level, designation and age work related variables were explored. The research was conducted as a survey, where a structured questionnaire was used among a sample of 80 employees. Sample consists of executive, supervisor and check roll employees. Financial benefits variable considered in the present study comprise personal security, financial assistance and personal needs while non financial benefits variables include Status, Power, and Recognition for achievement, Training, Working condition, and Flexibility. The findis reveal that the both financial and non financial benefits are significantly and positively related with job satisfaction and organizational commitment and significantly and negatively linked with intent to quit and job stress. Independent sample t-test found significance differences between males and females and civil status with Job satisfaction, intention to quit and job stress. However, no significance differences found between emplyees? service experience with respect to four work related variable.ANOVA test fond executive & allied and check roll employees repond significantly different way with respect to job stress. More over, ANOVA test found that thare is a significance difference between young and old with job satisfaction. Finally multiple regression analysis found that explanatory power of the non financial benefits is superior to financial benefits.Item Job Stress and Job Satisfaction: A Study of Managerial Employees in Domestic Commercial Banks(2011) Weerasinghe, T.D.; Batagoda, C.K.This study was conducted to measure the impact of job stress on job satisfaction of managerial employees working in Domestic Commercial Banks. Job stress is considered as the harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and capabilities, resources or needs of the employee. Job satisfaction describes how comfortable an individual is with own job. A self develop research model was tested where job stress is stated as the independent variable. All the branches of domestic commercial banks located in Colombo district were investigated and it was carried out on a sample of sixty branch managers. Simple random sampling was applied to select a representative sample. A self develop questionnaire was used to collect data. It was found that the measurement scales met the acceptable standards of validity and reliability analyses. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to test the research hypothesis. Researcher found that there is a high degree of job stress among branch managers of private commercial banks while having a moderate degree of job stress among branch managers of public banks. Findings revealed that women managers have a higher degree of job stress than male managers. Managers in public banks are highly satisfied while managers in private banks have either moderate or low level of job satisfaction. Women managers enjoy their jobs highly while male managers enjoy moderately. Study confirmed that job stress is significantly correlated with job satisfaction. Though job stress is a significant predictor of job satisfaction, it can be concluded that too little or too much of job stress leads to have low level of job satisfaction and moderate level of job stress leads to have high level of job satisfaction, in the tested domain. Key Words: Domestic Commercial Banks, Job Satisfaction, Job StressItem The Relationship between principals’ Emotional intelligence and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: A Case of National Schools in Sri Lanka(2011) Kappagoda, U.W.M.R.S.Emotional Intelligence (EI) is regarded as an important concept that leaders have to learn for the success of any organization. In reviewing the Sri Lankan literature on EI and Job Satisfaction (JS), it was difficult to find any investigation which has focused on the relationship between EI and JS in the context of schools and, in particular, teachers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Principals? EI and Teachers? JS in the national schools in Sri Lanka. The data were collected from a sample of 50 principals and 200 teachers using convenience sampling method. Data collected were analyzed using regression analysis and correlation coefficient. The results of the study indicated that EI of principals had a significant positive relationship with JS of teachers. It was recommended that EI of the principals should be enhanced to improve the JS of the teachers.