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    Performance Appraisal System and Employee Productivity: A study based on selected State Banks in Gampaha District
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Myral, P.D.A.K.N.; Senarath, S.A.C.L.
    Performance appraisal is one of the most important human resource practices in organizations which help to assess the employees and enhance their performance. However, there are various problems pertaining to performance appraisal systems in organizations especially with regards to the public sector. Though there are research conducted on performance evaluation and employed productivity there is a lacuna of research with regards to public banking sector. This research intends to fill this gap by identify the relationship between performance appraisal system and the productivity of the employees of two state banks. Further study aims to identify the drawbacks of the existing appraisal systems of state banks and how to improve it to enhance the productivity of the employees. Primary data was collected from 95 respondents from both banks using two types of structured questionnaires. One questionnaire will be distributed among the employees to know their views of the current performance appraisal system of their bank and the other for the managers in order to know their views on internal service quality of their employees based on the performance appraisal carried out in the previous year i.e. 2015. The simple random sampling method was used to select the respondents and data will be analyzed through SPSS version 24 by using multiple regression analyzing tool. It is hoped that this study will primarily be important for state banks and they will be in a position to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current performance appraisal system and to improve the systems while considering it as a tool to improve the productivity of the employees. Also this study may be of assistance to all other public sector organizations in Sri Lanka in general for the purpose of improving their performance appraisal systems.
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    The Nexus between Organizational Factors and Employee Productivity: Case of Ceylon Fertilizer Company
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Maldeniya, M.G.K.S.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.
    Labor productivity can be defined as the amount of goods and services that a worker produces with a given amount of inputs while maintaining the expected quality. In quantitative terms, labor productivity is the rate of output per worker per unit of time as compared with an established standard or expected rate of output. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of so-called organizational factors on employee productivity. Building on the previous literature, four organizational factors were identified such as financial benefits, working environment, rules ®ulations and organizational politics. Ceylon Fertilizer Company is one of the major states owned public company in the fertilizer industry. 80 Management assistant and executives’ working in Ceylon Fertilizer Company were taken as the sample. Convenient sampling method was applied to select the sample. Primary data were collected through a standard questionnaire. Data analysis was done with the aid of SPSS. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis was used to analyses data. Under the descriptive analysis mean is close to answer two. It means employees agreed regarding their less productivity and poor facilitation of the organizational factors. It was found a moderate positive relationship between independent variables and employee productivity excluding the financial benefits. Financial benefits were positively, but weakly correlated with employee productivity. According the simple regression analysis there is moderate impact to productivity. Rules and regulations was found to be the most influential factor among the aforementioned organizational factors affecting employee productivity.