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Item Analysis of Organizational Factors Coursing Employee Job Stress with Special Reference to Middle Level Managers of Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Malithi, M.A.S.; Dissanayake, D.M.T.D.more effective workers towards the organizational success. They talk positively about the industry and go beyond the normal expectations of their job while helping others. To create high level of satisfaction among the employees reducing job stress is very much important because Job Stress mean a dynamic condition in which an individual is confronted with an opportunity, constraint, or demand related to what he or she desires and for which the outcome is perceived to be both uncertain and important. According to this study researches identified that there are three main organizational factors such as leader related factors, management information system related factors and structure related factor causing employee job stress and the special reference was given to middle level managers in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Researches used simple random sampling technique to select the sample and finally selected 60 middle level managers from five apparel sector organizations. Collected data was analyzed by using SPSS statistical package and identified that the leader related factors are more influential among other factors. This study highlights the importance of leader related factors, management information system related factors and structure related factor towards the reduction of stress level with in the apparel sector and further it provides significant findings for reduce the job stress among the workers.Item Impact of Apparel Industry on the Economy of Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Embuldeniya, A.Impact of Apparel Industry on the Economy of Sri Lanka, as the research topic indicated the dependent variable of this study was the Economy of Sri Lanka that is measured with Gross Domestic Product while the independent variable was Apparel Industry that is measured with export performances. The general objective of this study is to identify the significance of the apparel industry and its impact to the economy of Sri Lanka. This research has used secondary data to gather information where Internet & websites, journal articles and books were main sources of information and percentages, frequencies, tables and charts were used to present data while using statistical packages as SPSS and Microsoft Excel were used to analyze data. Sri Lankan Apparels are at a stage where they can export quality products continuously to the export market. Sri Lanka's garment industry is highly concentrated in large scale factories. That concentration had save a large part of export earnings while providing job opportunities. Sri Lankan apparels are exported to the large number of countries all over the world including European Union and United States of America. The facts regarding apparel industry conclude there is a more impact of apparel industry than other industries to the total export earnings of the country over the past five years. The research has identified a positive relationship between Apparel Industry and Economy of Sri Lanka. Therefore the research has found that the Apparel industry is able to make an impact on economy of Sri Lanka.