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Item Women in Tourism Employment: A Case of Maldives.(8th International Conference on Business & Information ICBI – 2017, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Moosa, Z.The purpose of this article was to review some of the relevant literature applicable to women’s employment in the context of Maldives. It also reviews the status of women’s employment in the Maldivian tourism industry by focusing on the employment in the tourist resorts. Tourism has become the world's largest industry that provides employment and contributes to GDP. Tourism is also seen as an avenue for income generation for women. Women represent 50% of the labor force worldwide. Even with education and skills, they are a minority in the workplace. Hence, this review provides an understanding of the status of employment related to women in the tourist resorts of Maldives.Item Impact of Social Media Networking on Employees’ Productivity(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerasekara, S.H.S.M.Success of any organizations depends on the efficiency of employees. Organizational success generally will determined by employees who believed as you of the main belongings of any group because they are with the capacity of creating value and permit organizations have a lasting competitive benefit. According to the “Social Media and workplace 2012 Report”, the top-line finding that jumped out at me was this: 75 % of workers access social media on the job from their personal mobile devices at least once a day, and 60% access it multiple times a day. Many people comment on many aspects about this statement. However, when considering the IT industry, 71% of organizations block social networks in their organizations because they think that the employees spend more and more time on social media engaging in non-work related activities. So there is different ideas populated in the society and some surveys says that there is impact between social media networking and the employees productivity and some other surveys saying that is no impact between social media networking and the employees productivity. So there is a research gap between these two ideas. Therefore, this study designed to find impacts of social media networking on employees productivity and to find that what is the optimum level of social media networking impact to the employees productivity and to find that the reasons for social media networking in the working hours. The objectives of the study are to find out the Optimum level of social media networking, impact on employees productivity to identify the impacts from social media network to the Employees productivity and to identify the main social media sites which used to access in IT Industry and the reasons for accessing in working hours. Pilot survey conducted after making a rough questionnaire that constructed by extracting questions from recognized questions distributed among two organization of sample population and feedbacks and comments taken to adjust the questionnaire. Primary data gathered using surveys, interviews, and direct observations.Item Promoting Entrepreneurship for Development: A Study based on Status of Employment Data in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Senarath, S.A.C.L.Currently a high emphasis has been given to promote entrepreneurship as a policy instrument to acquire a rapid increase in employment generation, income creation and poverty alleviation in almost all the countries. Accordingly, Sri Lanka too has attached a considerable importance to promote this area in formulating its development policies, and already taken a number of steps for creating more entrepreneurs. However, in most of the deliberations, the need of the entrepreneurial development is discussed theoretically without even reviewing the success so far achieved based on the relevant national wide data in the economy. Nevertheless, this study, going against this conventional wisdom, attempts are made to analyze more rationally why entrepreneurship should be promoted based on the analysis of status of employment data available in Sri Lanka with catching its development so far achieved. Accordingly, the study found that the formal sectors’ labor absorption has reduced from 64.7% in 1991 to 58.7% in 2013 while that of informal sector has increased from 35.6% to 41.3% in the corresponding period on account of not expanding the entrepreneur category in the employment structure of the economy, beholding a higher level of unemployment for the more educated youths as substantiated by the available official data which indicates that open unemployment for the educated youths is as twice as that of lower level educated persons. The current study shows that percentage of the size of employers or the successful entrepreneurs compared to those of other sectors’ has been stagnated at inadequate low level around 2 to 3 percent of the employed over the study period, and this fact highlights the failure of the country’s attempts so far made to increase entrepreneurs, and why entrepreneurship should be really promoted in order to increase employment generation, income growth and poverty alleviation for the economy. Also, the study concludes suggesting more elaborative ways and means for increasing the size of the volume of employers or successful entrepreneurs to acquire a rapid increase in employment generation, income creation and poverty alleviation for the economy.Item Impact of economic & social factors to change of lobour force participation behaviour pattern(Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madushani, B.D.A.The labour force participation refers to the number of people who are either employed or are actively looking for work under the above 10 years old. A measure of the active portion of an economy's labor force. The number of people who are no longer actively searching for work would not be included in the participation rate. During an economic recession many workers often get discouraged and stop looking for employment, as a result, the participation rate decreases. (Hauser, 1973) Economic & social factors, mortality, migration Fertility effect to this differentiation or reduction. This paper estimate to get good decisions in labour market related on balance with labour supply & demand. At Consider the labour force participation in Sri Lanka, can understand the different on a labour force participation according to different age level. Further this differentiation also differs on the gender. Therefore according to sex rate differ in an effective rate & ineffective rate. In this research main objective is identify the factors to effect of this differentiation. In this research sub objectives are identify the impact of Fertility to change of labour force participation, identify the effect of mortality rate to change of labour force, Identify the impact of migration to change the labour force & identify the economic & social factors to change of the labour force participation.