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Item The Impact of Physical Work Environment on Job Satisfaction: The Perceptions of the Clerical Staff at the University of Kelaniya(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Hapuhinna, H. K. D. W. M. S. K.; Kumar, S.The workforce within the service sector is rapidly increasing. Service sector employees spend much of their time in indoor office environments, which affect employee performance and employee wellbeing. Nonetheless, little empirical evidence is available from Sri Lanka to demonstrate the link between the physical work environments and job satisfaction. The present study is conducted to identify the different elements of the workspace and their association with job satisfaction. The environment comfort model postulates that environmental comfort can be conceptualised to include the three aspects, physical, functional and psychological comfort. Physical comfort is the minimal level of comfort required, followed by functional and psychological comfort in affecting employee satisfaction. Thus, the model is hierarchical in nature. Demographic characteristics of employees are expected to affect perceptions of comfort. The investigation was carried out through two studies, using qualitative and quantitative approaches. University of Kelaniya was selected as the study site and clerical and allied grade employees were selected as the population for both studies. Focus group discussions were used for data collection and relative levels of comfort for the three aspects were assessed. The highest satisfaction was with physical comfort, followed by functional and psychological comfort, which is consistent with the hierarchical nature of the environmental comfort model. The study used stratified random sampling. Demographic characteristics affected experiences of comfort; specifically, results showed male respondents reported higher environmental satisfaction than female employees. The results indicated a significant relationship between physical work environment and job satisfaction, but not with functional and psychological comfort. The findings were generally supportive of the environmental comfort model. The results support the hierarchical nature of environmental comfort and the significance of physical comfort in the job satisfaction of employees. The study highlights through qualitative data that all three levels of comfort are nevertheless important. The implications of the findings to managerial applications are also discussed.Item Application of RFID System in Selected Libraries in Delhi, India: Issue & Challenges(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Roy, P.; Kumar, S.; SonuThe paper studied many aspects of the RFID application, its budgeting, purchase process and application. It also studied advantages and limitation of RFID Technology, Documentation and Financial Implication, Challenges faced in initial stage and remedies, RFID tag, RFID Gate, software, vendor selection. The library has taken many innovative steps to implement the RFID in a very short period of time and in less technical glitches. It also studied counting performance with RFID technology, Wrong-positioned book situation with RFID technology, reaching the sources in the library with RFID technology and Library services as copyright and lending out books with RFID technology. The study selected major important libraries in Delhi, out of that, it’s found that four libraries are using the RFID system at that time. In the present study descriptive survey method was used to know the usage of Radio Frequency Identifier System (RFID). The author wanted to know the usage of RFID system among the users of four selected Libraries in Delhi. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect the raw data. This research employs the method of quantitative research to gather an in-depth understanding of the nature of usage of RFID system among users of said libraries. From the above study it has been found that the entire three libraries are RFID applicable. The users are very much satisfied with the RFID application of the library. The application of the library is differ from one another. The hardware and software is also diversified. But the main objectives of the said libraries are same, i.e. service to the users. The studyshows the effective application of RFID technology is done by IIT Delhi library. On the other hand the British council library is older one for the application of RFID. Still the clientele and subject covered by the IIT library are huge and diversified. The technological effectiveness of IIT library is better than other two libraries. NASSDOC library should show more effectiveness for the daily use of the RFID technology. Above all, the RFID technology is very efficient technology to manage the different housekeeping jobs of the library. It’s not so much expensive venture, its result oriented venture. Security of books and identification of books is done very quickly. The technology can be adopted by the other libraries in India.Item Sales performance and goal orientations for task and social achievement(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Gunawardana, D.K.H.H.; Kumar, S.Item What makes teams work: leader- member relationship quality and employee performance and job attitudes(University of Kelaniya, 2008) de Mel, W.L.I.; Kumar, S.Item Participation in extra-curricular activities as a predictor of task and contextual performance(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Jayathilake, T.M.G.M.; Kumar, S.