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The Association of Transformational Leadership with Employee Empowerment: A Study among IT Professionals
(International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI – 2019), [Human Resource Management], Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2019) Mathew, G.C.; Ramanathan, H.N.; Athira, L.
Organizations in the 21st century are in the process of identifying different ways and means to develop and maintain leadership in the domain they work. By influencing the attitude and behavior of employees, as well as motivating them to contribute more, leaders can play a pivotal role in the achievement of organizational goals. Empowerment of employees gives them an extent of autonomy as well as decision making capacity to the employees at lower level. Inadequate empowerment of employees may lead various consequences like turnover of employees, lack of productivity among employees, decreased contribution; absence of updating knowledge as well as techniques, lack of development and growth, excessive wastage and creation of non-qualitative products and services. Organizational decision makers are more or less myopic about this. Moreover, not much attention has been paid to identify whether and how leadership influences employee empowerment. This study will help the organizational executives to know the role of transformational leadership style on employee empowerment. Descriptive research was carried out adopting a 7-point scale structured questionnaire to collect primary data. Regression analysis was used, and it is found that transformational leadership is positively associated with employee’s feeling of control; in other words, managerial empowerment.
Pro-Social Behaviour: A Comparative Study among Online and Local Taxi Drivers
(9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Mathew, G.C.; Ramanathan, H.N.; Joseph, D.
India’s car lease industry has recorded a whopping growth for the last couple of years. The Indian cab chartering market’s proceeds is extrapolated to proliferate at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35% and is likely to be valued around Rupees 800 billon in another two years. The car rental business has emerged as one the fastest growing business. Unreliable local (public) taxi attributed with arrogant behavior of drivers, exploitation and unfair rates are some of the major problems encountered by the common public in these days. Emergence of online taxi services resulted in a shift in demand from local taxi services to online taxi services. Print media as well as visual media reported that there are many reasons behind this shift and one of the important factors that they identified is the attitude and behavior pattern of taxi drivers. The main objective of this paper is to explore whether there is difference in the prosocial behavior pattern of online taxi drivers and local taxi drivers. Societies require a great level of cooperation and accommodative nature for the survival. This study adopted a descriptive research and used Mann-Whitney U, non-parametric test. The result of this study indicates that, there is a significant difference in the pro-social behavior pattern among Online and Local Taxi Drivers. The behavior of helping and caring others can be termed as pro-social behavior. It is observed that the helping natures of human beings are not occurring in an unrelated way, but it occurs because of the symptomatic relationship of various factors. Inadequate research in the field of pro-sociality makes the research gap wider. A study of prosocial behavior among cab drivers makes this study unique and presumes that this study will enlighten and provide exciting directions in pro-social research which may take this discipline to new horizons
Transition of World Cashew Industry: Challenges Ahead for India
(9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Bhoodes, R.K.; Ramanatha, H.N.; Mathew, G.C.
Cashew is an important commodity traded across the continents and the world cashew industry is the livelihood of more than three million people worldwide, the majority of whom are womenfolk from the socially and economically backward community of the developing nations. India was the first country to hit the world market with cashew as a commodity and it was she who pioneered cashew processing as an industry. For decades together India was enjoying a monopoly in the world cashew industry. The liberalization of international trade has brought in a big transition in the field of cashew. India started to benefit from the trade policy, but with more raw nut producing countries acquiring the knowhow of processing coupled with vast mechanization in cashew processing, India started losing her premier positions in the world cashew scenario. The inability to make use of opportunity, foreign entrants in the domestic market, foreign suppliers of raw nuts, reduction in the international market share, shift in the processing, identify new market are some of the major challenges that awaits Indian cashew Industry. This transition of world cashew industry and the challenges that await India in the years to come in view of these continued transition were the subject matter of this research work. The findings of the study enable the Indian cashew Industry to gear up to cater the ever increasing demand of the domestic market as well as to contribute in a better way to the growth of the country. Though there has been a lot of research conducted in the field of cashew, the gap of a research in the above mentioned dimension is huge. This prompted the researcher to conduct a study in this aspect