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Item Significance of Tourism on Sri Lankan Economy: A Review(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madushani, H.D.P.Item Social Network Usage of Government Employees in Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; Madushani, H.D.P.; Perera, L.G.D.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Nayomi, W.V.P.M.; Kulasinghe, K.S.R.; Madushanka, G.L.D.H.C.In a modern day workplace social media place’s a pivotal role in various areas and provide certain benefits to a company such as easy sharing of information, Attune everyone in the organization to each other's needs and improve the way individuals think collectively etc. Due to that, social networks are associated with the productivity of an organization. Hence, this study was carried out with the following two objectives. They are identifying the factors affected for using social network sites by government employees and the government employees’ behavior on social network sites. The sample of this study was selected using two-stage cluster sampling method and it was selected from the Colombo district. Primary data were collected by using the structured interview method. From this study it was discovered that government employee’s age is the only factor that affects for using social media sites. More than three quarters of the government employees accessed social networking sites in the office and most of them used SNS’s for personal matters. Hence, number of working hours were wasted. Thereby government organizations should create their own set of rules, guidelines and policies to reduce the wasted time. Also monitoring the employee behavior on SNSs is a better way to effectively manage the use of SNSs by government employees.Item Seasonality Variation and Its Impact on Local Economy (With special reference to South coastal area, Sri Lanka)(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madushani, H.D.P.; Gunarathne, M.In recent decades, tourism has become a significant global phenomena with its massive influence on society, politics, culture and above all the economy. Seasonality is one of the unique and idiosyncratic features of international tourism and in Sri Lanka too. In Sri Lanka seasonal variation is very high for 30 years of time when compared with other South Asian countries. Seasonality is a problem related to the productivity of use of capacity. The supply side behavior and the labor market in tourism are affected by seasonal variation in demand. The main objective of this research is to identify the economic impact of seasonality variation of tourism in South coastal area, Sri Lanka. Primary data was collected by carrying out semi structured interviews using questionnaire. Secondary data was collected from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development authority (SLTDA) and an airport survey since 1968. The analysis indicates that some specific economic variables have a relationship with the seasonal variation using Gini Coefficient, regression analysis and time series analysis. This paper indicates the proof about the influence of some economic variables such as GDP, changes in price index and employment on the seasonal variation of tourist arrivals. Better marketing strategies, decreasing prices are some of the remedies for seasonal variation. The presented paper would be useful not only to tourism companies tackling seasonality and the government but also to further researchers.Item කාන්තා පරිගණක අධ්යාපනය සහ භාවිතය(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.; Nayomi, W.V.P.N.; Dasanayake, D.H.M.; Perera, L.G.D.Item යුද්ධය අවසන් වීමට පෙර හා අවසන් වීමෙන් පසු ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ ප්රවණතා(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.; Nayomi, W.V.P.N.; Dasanayake, D.H.M.; Perera, L.G.D.Item ප්රවාහන ක්රම හා වායු දූෂණය(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.; Nayomi, H.V.P.M.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Perera, L.G.D.Item The Millennium Development Goals and Sri Lanka(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.Item විශ්ව විද්යාල නවකවදය හා සම්බන්ධව ඇති නීතිමය ක්රියාමාර්ග(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.; Nayomi, W.V.P.N.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Perera, L.G.D.Item කාන්තාවන් විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා ඇදීයාම(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, H.D.P.; Nayomi, H.V.P.M.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Perera, L.G.D.