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    The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee’s Intention to Quit: With Special Reference to one of the Leading Sales and Distribution Company in Sri Lanka.
    (5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Senarathna, P. V. N. N.; Silva, H. M. S. V.
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of workplace bulling on employee’s intention to leave in the context of sales representatives in one of a leading sales and distribution company in Sri Lanka. Additionally, this study examines the moderating effect of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) in between the concepts of workplace bulling and employee’s intention to quit. This study is a quantitative study and carried out following the deductive approach. Meanwhile, this study is used 63 sample of sales representatives for the study. Moreover, this study is used random sampling technique as the sampling technique of the study. Survey strategy was used and standard pre tested questionnaire was used to gather data. First hypothesis was tested using regression analysis. It was identified that there was a positive significance impact between the workplace bulling and employee’s intention to leave within the study context. Afterwards, moderator was analyzed using the Moderator Multiply Regression (MMR) and POS was not identified as the moderator in the relationship between the workplace bulling and intention to leave in current context. Thus, Hypothesis 2 was rejected. Even though studies exist in relation to these constructs, limited number of studies have been done considering the Sri Lankan context. Hence, present study fulfills the research requirements within Sri Lankan context and proven theory of unfolding model can be applied in the Lankan context as well.
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    Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Performance: Study of Operational Level Employees in Polytex Garments Limited
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Nirudika, W.N.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.
    Negative acts concerning work related and person related are called as workplace bullying. It is common in most organizations today especially with the presence of a diverse workforce in many organizations. Workplace bullying is a problem and is an important organizational and social concern. Bullying seems to have a number of negative individual consequences in the form of stress and poor mental health. This study examined the impact of workplace bullying on employee performance. And also it determines a comprehensive definition of workplace bullying and explores its job-related consequences. In the present study questionnaire was used in order to investigate experience of workplace. Data was collected from 100 operational level employees in Polytex Garments Limited, Yakkala to complete the objectives of the study. The data, analyzed by SPSS 20 revealed that there is a negative relationship between workplace bullying and employee performance. The responsiveness of employee performance towards workplace bullying is 52%. Expectedly, the study found that most dominant variable which affect to employee performance is work related bullying. Researcher recommends that employees who experience bullying at work should be given adequate support and conductive work environment in order to reduce the negative consequences of bullying on employee well-being and performance.