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Item Impact of Intrinsic Factors on Extended Career Prospects of Women in Logistics Industry in Sri Lanka(International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Kosgoda, T.M.; Jayasundara, A.K.C.H.Logistics and shipping are an inter-wined connection that allows the smooth flow of goods and information from point of origin to the point of destination. This industry is blooming worldwide and there is a pre-convinced idea of the industry and the perception revolving around the public mind that the logistics and shipping job is undoubtedly suitable for men but not for women. Logistics and shipping industry where there signals a lack of women’s representation is mostly highlighted that, there is a "Glass Ceiling", a hypothetical term to describe the gender inequality in the managerial sector. According to the report by Women in Supply Chain (2010) the “Glass Ceiling” (Hede, 1995) has been shown to be misleading as a theory of managerial inequity in that it incorrectly implies there is only a single barrier at the top and that there are no further problems once a women break through it. However, a myriad of problems still has to be faced by women, although a woman breaks the "Glass Ceiling".Item A Study of Underrepresentation of Women in Higher Managerial Positions in Logistics Industry in Sri Lanka(International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2019) Kosgoda, T. M.; Jayasundara, A.K.C.H.Women have made a remarkable move in workforce participation in Sri Lanka. Researchers have shown that women’s participation in strategic decision making is vital to the organization’s success and there are visible and invisible challenges that hinder women when reaching higher management positions. However, little is known about the representation of women in the higher managerial positions in the Logistics industry in Sri Lanka. If the women’s participation in strategic decision making is vital to the organization and if little is known about the representation of women in the higher managerial positions in the Logistics industry in Sri Lanka, then more needs to know why the current percentage in women’s representation in top management positions is low. The purpose of the study is to explore “Why women are underrepresented in the higher managerial positions in the Logistics industry in Sri Lanka”.Item A study on the necessity of the utilization of the new managerial concepts for the increased productivity of the television news room(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Sakalasooriya, S.M.E.U.P.; Gunasekara, H.D.E.It has become timely necessity to utilise new management concepts to increase the productivity of the television news room. New managerial concepts such as Planning, organizing, administration, leadership, motivation, assessments and encouragements, brain storming discussions, performance review and feedback are being used fully in the news sections of the developed world. Do the television news managers of Sri Lanka utilise the new managerial concepts productively? If yes, how? Inquiring the effects of the new managerial concepts on the productivity of the television news room is the aim of this research. The television news managers of Sri Lanka do not utilise the new managerial concepts effectively is the Hypothesis of the research. Interview method and participatory observation were the two main Primary data gathering methods. Planning reports, progress reports, annual reports, copies of news, shift duty roster and other files of the 6 television news rooms including documents pertaining to the subject were the secondary data gathering methods. Amongst the multiple local media, only 6 television news rooms were selected for the research while the research focused only on the new managerial concept out of the broad subject area in the management. This study found that 5 out of 6 television news rooms (83.33%) did not utilise new managerial concepts productively as a whole. Many news managers have turned to imitate international news channels and did not adhere due to managerial procedure in recruitment for news section. Managers are concentrated only on the outside training and they do not even follow an assessment procedure as per accepted managerial rules. All the news managers agreed on the quality of the news it was revealed that there are internal issues on it. Confirming the hypothesis, main conclusion was that the news section of the local televisions does not utilise the new managerial concepts productively. To offer better quality news through Television media, Television news managers should utilise new managerial concepts. It will lead for effective and productive activities in the television news section.Item The Purpose of Using Journals and Difficulties they are facing among Management Students in Sri Lankan Universities.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Peiris, P.A.I.Among many Information resources, Journal is important source for access to latest information. “A periodical devoted to disseminating original research and commentary on current developments in a specific discipline, sub discipline, or field of studyusually published in quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly issues sold by subscription. Journal articles are usually written by the person (or persons) who conducted the research.” (Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science) The main objectives of the study are to identify objectives and need of using journals by management students and find out issues of they have to face. The study based on survey method. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Microsoft Excel was used analyzed the collected data. Under the survey research method, two Universities of Kelaniya, Sri Jayawardanapura were used as the sample. Used 100 management students in both of universities. As the result of the study, most of the students used journal for needs of assignments. Issues of they have to face are lack of awareness of management journals in library, they have to spend more time to find journal article which they want. The study suggest that Raising awareness of readers about the co-ordination of periodical sectional journals and also the seekingof journal. Using the systematic and continual searching tricks and methods for easing off the accession into journals and articles. Presenting the newly bought journals for readers and publishing hand book consisted information of periodical section for raising awareness of users about latest journal by the library.Item E-Commerce Organization’s Information System Necessities.(Department of Library and Information Science,Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Bandara, T.A.C.J.S.; Pathiratne, S.The digital era offers incipient ways of doing business. The prosperity of these innovative approaches consists in obtaining the needed information more expeditious than ever, executing transactions in authentic time and perpetually refining methods and procedures. So far, enterprises are simply start to grasp the advantages of the business electronic systems. At the moment, author availed at a great society transformation, from a paper-predicated to an electronic-predicated modus operandi.E-commerce organizations (EO), Virtual Enterprises (VE) or web-enterprises (WE) are withal global scale enterprises, acting on planetary level by utilizing ICT. In fact, these are enterprises “based on information”, on erudition; they are built on advanced cutting edge information handling technologies., Administration structure is simplerIn these enterprises, with fewer bureaucracy and, in conclusion, more malleable. Information has a multiplier role, triggering all economic subdivisions. It avails the enterprise optimization, raising the productivity, while depressing costs.The incrementing involution of daily quandaries, together with the circumscribed time for solving them, pose the incipient stresses on software designers’, who claim additional and more CASE utensils, in dissimilar phases of the information system project. Underneath these conditions, the developing medium engenderers connect modeling instruments (CASE), and instrument engenderers are in favor of tighter linking of instruments for developing mediums.The setting-up and upkeep of e-commerce activities, which require maximum security conditions for all transactions, as well as other commercial functions such as apprising users or promoting products with maxim effectiveness, under the compression of authentic- time transactions, are all information system designer tasks.The cull of one of the numerous solutions at hand is tenacious, to a great extent, by the performance criteria and business orchestrating of each corporation, by predictable outcomes of the commercial activity. Other prosperity factors are represented by the experience, professional training, and innovative spirit, and ingeniousness, power of acclimating and capacity of utilizing the already existent resolution capabilities, of the design squad.This study will present some germane aspects of the E-commerce organizations information system requisites, CASE modeling techniques and of the VE internal and external relationshipsItem Effective University Management: Issues for Academics(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Ubayachandra, E.G.The significant of efficient and effective management for fruitful and productive university system is stressed here. The university system is considered here in a Sri Lankan context. It is sure that university system has a center stage role in providing a productive labour force to the labour market in the country.to achieve its goal or mission it must have an appreciable and clear vision. In steering towards this mission with a better vision, leadership in the universities ought to be well equipped.This article stresses the importance of university authority and academies working together through managerial roles and sharing a strategy for an effective management process. Further an attempt is made to point out self-management, understanding individual behavior, assertiveness, delegation, empowerment and good relationship as aspects that could help to harness an effective university management process to enhance and strengthen productivity.Item Labour Turnout in the Plantation Sector: A Study on Selected Large Scale Tea Estates in Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Chandrabose, A.S.One of the major Contemporary issues in the plantation sector is centred on labour. There is a mismatch between the availability of labour and their turnout. Around 30 per cent of the resident workforce does not pursue their traditional estate job. It is fact generally observed in the tea plantation sector. The sector also underwent several changes in recent past but the rate of dependency on manual labour still persists. Tea sector is highly labour intensive and it requires labour right –round the year. The nature of work demands the involvement of both the male and the female labourers. The reasons for lack of labourers for the state work are to be analysed. The studies conducted by various experts and institutes have revealed that the youth in the plantation sector are not keen to follow the foot steps of their parents in the plantation sector. The studies also highlight that the style of privatised estates management is not attractive enough for the youth in the estates. Moreover, the welfare system provided by the estate has not been adequately inspiring them to remaining in the registered labour force in the estates and contributed to the reasons for non-participation of the estate work.However, the impact of education, gender difference and prevalence of welfare schemes on labour turnout has not been sufficiently addressed. Since, there are hardly any facts based on household survey, it was decided to conduct to do a survey in the selected tea estates. Systematic random sample was applied and selected a total of five estates, three representing the tea region of high elevation (TRHE) and two representing the tea region of low elevation (TRLE). Total household survey covered in this study was 72, comprising 42 from TRHE and 30 from TRLE. The survey found that the opportunity of receiving education has greatly contributed to the low levels of labour turnout and the same situation prevailed in both regions in this study. As far as gender variable is concerned, the low level of turnout for estate work was mostly found among the male workers and it varied greatly in the two regions under study. Existing welfare schemes are not them adequate to the health care of the workers and, therefore, not attractive enough for them to be remained in the estate jobs. The suggestions are (a) an appropriate method of management style should be adopted for the recruitment of educated youth for the estate work; (b) replanting activity should be accelerated in the tea estates. This may prevent the male workers from seeking jobs elsewhere and it will lead to increase the productivity of tea as well. Thirdly, (c) estate management should be given a free hand to provide welfare schemes to the workers. These measures will be in the best interest of labour, industry, state and society.Item Impact of ISO 9000 Certification on Sri Lankan Industry and Need for a Total Quality Approach(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Munasinghe, L.; Prabodanie, R.A.R.ISO 9000 is the world’s most renowned quality management system and it has been used extensively as a basis for independent (third party) quality system certifications. Many Sri Lankan organizations have obtained ISO 9000 certification as a means of providing some assurance for quality. However quality of an organization has different aspects like quality of people, quality of work and quality of products. Does ISO 9000 Quality Management System have a significant positive influence on all the aspects of quality? The answer of course, varies from country to country depending on the country’s economy, industrial capabilities, working habits of people etc. The survey was focused on the quality approach, activities and achievements of a sample of ISO 9000 certified companies in Sri Lanka. The main objective of the survey was to identify the impact of ISO 9000 certification on quality of workforce, quality of processes, quality of products/services and quality of environment. Findings of this research provide evidence that ISO 9000 certification has significantly improved the quality of organizational processes but it has failed to make a significant impact on quality of people, quality of products/services and also the quality of the environment. Therefore the certification has been of limited importance. The certification does not help in the long run unless the quality culture and Total Quality Management philosophy is well established and maintained under the care and nurture of all employees. So we suggest that all organizations should apply the new ISO 9001:2000 as part of a Total Quality Approach to the implementation of socially and economically accountable management systems. The government and the national certification body; Sri Lanka Standards Institution, should identify how the standard can be implemented to match the country’s specific requirements and ensure reliable and consistent third party audits on which the local and international community can rely.