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Item THE IMPACT OF WORK FROM HOME ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY WITH THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE MENTAL WELL-BEING AT ABC IT COMPANY IN SRI LANKA(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Somarathna, J. T. C.; Jayasinghe, C.The study primarily focuses on how work from home affects employee productivity at ABC IT Company in Sri Lanka. Employee mental well-being serves as a mediator on the relationship between work from home and employee productivity. In addition to that, this study aims to bridge that gap by examining the impact of work from home on employee productivity among software developers in IT industry in Sri Lanka, with employee mental well-being acting as a mediator in the relationship. Although there is enough literature on work from home, employee productivity and employee mental well-being in the other countries. There is less research in Sri Lankan context to test the relationship between work from home on employee productivity and the mediating effect of employee mental well-being, especially in IT Industry in Sri Lanka. This research is deductive research and was conducted using a survey research strategy and quantitative research method. Software developers of ABC IT Company were chosen as the population of the study. The sample size was 163, data collection was done through a standardized questionnaire and simple random sampling technique was applied to select the participants. A google form was created and distributed to collect data. The number of employees who responded was 166 out of 175 employees. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 20.0 was used as a tool for data analysis and both descriptive and inferential statistics, namely correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to analyze data. Findings of the analysis reveal that there is a strong positive correlation between work from home and employee productivity. Furthermore, a significant impact is found from work from home on employee mental well-being, employee mental well-being on employee productivity, work from home on employee productivity and employee mental well-being mediated the relationship between work from home and productivity in the selected study domain.Item 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.Item 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.Item Impact of Human Capital on Organizational Performance: Special Reference to Banking Industry in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rajapaksha, U.G.This research has conducted to analyze the impact of Human Capital Management to organization performance. Selected industry for the study is banking industry in Sri Lanka. Banking industry is a service organization. A service organization can be properly competitive due to application of marketing tools such as People, Physical Evidence and Process. As per the reviews of the literature, ‘People’ factor is more important than other two. ‘People’ factor become really powerful due to its inherent qualities such as Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Attitudes which other resource don’t have. Further every organization has different types of capitals such as money capital, physical capital, infrastructure capital and human capital. Out of these capitals, human capital is more important due to many reasons such as its appreciable nature, decision making ability, transformability, memory power, forecasting power, thinking power etc. Therefore the human qualities such as having Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Attitudes can be changed according to organizational requirement by the education, experience, age, training and development etc. in order to form a better human capital. This study has three main objectives; first, to explore the impact of demographic variables such as (age, education and experience), second to see explore training & development and third, to assess employee motivation factors (salary and rewards) as the human capital components on organizational performance (financial performance). Most of the journal articles and literature have been undertaken to develop an argument in the field of human capital and firms’ performance. Most of the authors have analyzed the human capital and its performance in different ways. However majority of them have positive arguments about the human capital and its impact of organizational performance. Accordingly as per many studies, employee’s skill, abilities, experience and knowledge is known as capital of human or else human capital. In order to manage the human capital properly, as per the literature, there should be adequate training & development, education, motivation in order to enhance their skills, knowledge, abilities and attitudes. Last 10 years of financial performance was passed with components of human capital in four banks in Sri Lanka. Each variables was averaged and based for the evaluation. As the independent variables, age, education, experience, marital status, sex, training and development and rewards are taken. As the moderating variable labor productivity is taken while financial performance is taken as dependent variable. Structural equation method was used and analyzed the data using SPSS Amos (21). Adjusted R2 was 88.16 percent. RMSEA is 0.076. However, study found that the variables such as employees aged between 21 to 25 of years who have completed secondary education and having gained training and development are significantly and positively influential. Further the employees with 5-15 years of experiences are also positively and moderately significant under 95 percent confident intervals. Further the variables such as experience with 26-30 years, being male employees, being unmarried employee, having training and development exposures and having age between 18-20 years show an inverse relationship to financial performance through labor productivity. Only being males become highly significant under 99 percent confident interval. Finally study concludes that components in human capital has a significant impact on organizational performance.