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Item Impact of Teamwork on Employee Performance of ABC Company(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wanasinghe, T.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.With the intention of investigating the impact of teamwork on employee performance, this study was conducted in a Sub Business Unit (SBU) of one of the leading group of companies in agrochemical industry that comes under the agricultural sector of Sri Lanka giving special consideration into leadership style, team trust, team spirit and employee performance. Main objective of the research was to investigate the impact of teamwork on employee performance. Hypotheses were developed separately to test whether there is a relationship between each independent variable along with the dependent variable. Total population of the SBU was 120 and a representative sample of 92 employees was selected using simple random sampling technique to collect data via a questionnaire. Quantitative analysis was carried out to find the correlation and regression. Teamwork, team leadership style and team trust had a strong correlation with employee performance while team spirit had a moderate correlation. Regression analysis also revealed that all three independent variables have significant relationships with the dependent variables. The outcome of the qualitative analysis clearly observed that majority of the employees has identified that team work motivates them in delivering at their optimum capacity. All the employees agreed that team work has a positive influence on increasing the profit level of the SBU and main reasons were emphasized as collaboration and mutual support among team members, having common objectives, shared vision and mission and blending of diverse talents and innovative ideas to achieve complex targets. With the analytical results it can be concluded that teamwork, team leadership style, team trust and team spirit respectively have positive and significant relationships with employee performance. It is recommended to have further in-depth studies to prove the outcome of this research.Item The Impact of Career Anchors on Job Satisfaction of Bank Managers in State Owned Commercial Banks of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.; Muthukumarana, P.P.S.Intense customer care is one of the best practices adopted by the private sector commercial banks and this has become a critical success factor that differentiates their service from the service of state banks. Hence, employee job satisfaction is a significant matter of concern for the state banks to face this challenge and achieve service excellence. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of individuals’ selfconcept on job satisfaction in terms of career anchor concept proposed by Edgar Schein. A purposive sample of 108 managers from Bank of Ceylon and People’s Bank head office were selected by using simple random sampling technique. The independent variable representing career anchors includes the following three dimensions; talent based career anchors, need based career anchors, value based career anchors while the dependent variable job satisfaction was analyzed under two dimensions namely; intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors. There are four hypotheses were formulated using deductive approach. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among the respondents to collect data for the research. Descriptive statistics were used to present the characteristics of the sample of the study. Furthermore the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to measure the impact of career anchors on job satisfaction. The study found that there is a significant impact of need based career anchors on job satisfaction whereas talent based and value based career anchors have no significant impact on job satisfaction of managerial staff at state owned commercial banks.Item Empirical Study for Personality and Job Performance of Middle Managerial Level Employees in the Public Commercial Banking Sector in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayamanna, D.A.C.M.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.Personality is a significant factor which affects job performance of employees according to many previous studies. Hence, the main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between personality and job performance of public commercial banking sector employees using middle managerial level employees as the sample. Personality was measured using the big five dimensions namely extraversion, neuroticism, openness, conscientiousness and openness while job performance was measured through task & contextual performance and counterproductive work behavior. The results of the study was mainly analyzed using correlation and regression analysis and the findings confirmed that personality was a valid predictor which had a statistically significant, strong positive relationship with job performance. Moreover, each big five dimension had a statistically significant moderate positive relationship with job performance. Hence, this study provides new insights to the management of the banking sector indicating that personality should be given due consideration in human resource management practices in their organizations.Item IMPACT OF LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE ON BUSINESS SUCCESS AMONG SMALL RETAIL OWNER MANAGERS IN SRI LANKA(2010) Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.; Surangi, H.K.N.S.Two key demographic variables that influence entrepreneurship activities are level of education and business experience. The ?Business Experience? ?Formal Education? and the ?Business Success? are three interrelated terms. Most of the researchers have argued for stronger link between the business experience and the business success, and Formal education and the business success. Robrt and Alicia (2003) exposed success of the business is linked with level of the education of the owner .Therefore education is another factor that influences owner mangers entrepreneurial success and Thapa (2007) discovered the education has positive effect on entrepreneurial success. Further owner managers business experience is important determinant for business success. Goslin and Barge (1986) revealed individuals who finance new ventures weigh the owners' experience significantly when making decisions .Then the problem of the study was ;impact of level of education and business experience on business success of owner managers. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between business success with business experience and business success with the level of the education. The study was based on sample of 33 owner manager from retail sector. The data collection technique was questionnaire method and used Independent t-test for analyses the data. Findings of the study were there is a significant relationship between level of education and business success and there were no difference between business experience and business success.