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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.
Determining the Relative Significance of Life style Factors on Predicting Social Capital: A Study Using Multilayer Perceptron
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2021) Ramanathan, H.N.
Economic development ushered in rapid urbanization across the globe. Urbanization brought in opportunities for improved income, better standard of living, and enhanced health care along with a sea change in life styles of populace. Life style of an individual is a factor that influences the social involvement of an individual. Lifestyle as well as social capital is important factors that may contribute healthy behavior of an individual in any society. Social capital is a notion that targets the significance of social interactions between groups and within the groups. Social capital is considered to involve social networks and support structures, community participation, civic and political involvement, trust in people and social institutions, and norms of reciprocity. This study is an attempt to explore the influence of life style factors in predicting the social capital of an individual. The study conducted among 434 educators in the State of Kerala, India, by using validated instruments. Lifestyle of the respondents was measured by using AIO (Activities, Interest and Opinions) inventory. The tool that used to measure ‘social capital’ is formed from the Social Capital Assessment Tool (SOCAT) developed by World Bank. This paper addresses the importance of lifestyle factors in predicting the social capital of an individual by using multilayer perceptron. End result suggested that there were three lifestyle factors namely self-confidence with normalized importance of 100%, communityminded with normalized importance of 95% and information seeking behavior with normalized importance of 62.2 % of an individual are significant in predicting the social capital. The findings of the study offer number of implications for policy makers. Future research and managerial implications is addressed in this study.
An Empirical Investigation on the Impact of Port-Based Development Projects on the Fishermen Community
(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) Antony, O.P.; Helan, A.P.; Ramanathan, H.N.
Port-based development projects like International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) Vallarpadam, Kochi, Kerala, India has created a pressure on the livelihood security of fishermen community in the locality. The study tries to find out the influences of the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) Vallarpadam on the fishermen community. Using a stratified random sampling technique 187 samples were selected from the fishermen population of Goshree islands located in the Vembanad Lake. These islands include Vypin, Bolgatty, Vallarpadam and Thanthonni Thuruthu. A structured interview schedule was used for collecting data through personal interview method. The primary data was analyzed with the help of SPSS. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) technique was used to derive the results. The analysis reveals that the setting up of port-based development projects like International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) Vallarpadam resulted in the loss of fishing facilities for fishermen which affect their livelihood
Factors Influencing Supply Chain Practices of Seafood Industries in India: An Empirical Examination
(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) Abdeen, J.; Ramanathan, H.N.
Effective and efficient supply chain management practices now have become a very valuable and important way to remain competitive in market and to improve the organizational performance. The case of seafood exports from Kerala provides a manageable case study that throws light on the challenges faced by exporters in India as a whole. At the same time, it highlights the particular supply chain management practices followed by the Kerala seafood export sector. The population of interest was the registered seafood exporting companies in Kerala. The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire which was administered to a total sample of 350 managers. Sample selection was based on simple random sampling technique. The analyses involved statistical methods such as reliability and validity tests and Factor analysis. The study reveal the importance of Internal Integration, Strategic Supplier Partnership, Customer Relationship Management and Information Sharing. The results indicate that supplier involvement is a key coordinating process in supply chain design. Effective supply chain practice and effective information sharing are two sources of supply chain improvement. Organization has to understand and recognize supply chain management practice has profit enabler function in seafood industry. Three critical aspects of supply chain partnerships are: recognizing opportunities that would benefit from a partnership, selecting the right partners and meeting the requirements as a partner. To develop a responsive supply chain, continuous collaborative improvement among firms has become strategic imperative. This collaboration is occurring in many industries and has become the source of competitive advantage for some companies
Feasibility Study of Defense Research Projects: Identification and Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Parameters
(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) Kumar, K.A.; Kiran Govind, V.; Ramanathan, H.N.
High technology research projects like defense and space technologies etc. are undertaken by Government of India departments like Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organization. The new project proposals are subjected to detailed review for its feasibility and completeness. This paper aims at identifying critical parameters based on Systems Engineering principles for evaluation of such new project proposals. A careful analysis of the parameters brings out the endogenous and exogenous characteristics which are important for successful completion of research and development projects. These parameters form the basis for deriving composite matrices which can be used for evaluation and feasibility of new research project proposals
Generation Gap in Store Selection Criteria of Gold Buyers: An Empirical Examination of Gold Buyers belonging to Liberalized and Non- Liberalized Era in 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) Pathy, G.S.; Ramanathan, H.N.
Gold in India occupies a special space in the life of people. It possesses utilitarian, hedonic as well as symbolic qualities. This has ensured that India regularly accounts for almost 25% of the total gold imports in the world. The study is an attempt to identify the impact of cultural dynamics on gold store (Jewelry) selection behavior. The population was classified into pre and post-liberalization generation by dividing into those born before 1976 and after 1976. This was based on average marriage age for females. Though the legal age for marriage for females in India is 18, actual average marriage age for females in India is 20 to 22. The generation born in 1976 would turn 20 by 1996, meaning that the marriage of women belonging to this generation would have happened well after the fall outs of globalization would have started to impact the economy. In order to reduce the impact of external factors on the result samples were chosen from the same socio-economic background i.e. one sample belonging to each of the generations were selected from the same family. A snowballing sampling methodology was adopted. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire. The store selection variables considered under the study were broadly classified into internal and external. Internal includes statements as I buy gold from the same store, I have a list of stores that I trust I choose from among them based on the situation and I take a decision based on opinions of friends and family. The external factors considered were I take a decision based on the attractiveness of advertisements, I take a decision based on promotion and offers. The data was collected from a total of 105 families (210 respondents). The study brought out that cultural dynamics has an influence on store choice behavior. The study couldn’t find any difference between the different attributes contributing to store selection among the pre-liberalization generation. While among the post-liberalization generation though there are differences. The study concludes by stating that cultural dynamics have an impact on store choice behavior. It also opens up a research gap, as the influence of cultural dynamics on other processes of consumer behavior can be probed into as well.
Impact of Sex Roles on Brand Gender Contamination of Purchase of Decision-Making: Case in Sri Lanka
(Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2019, 2019) De Alwis, A.C.; Ramanathan, H.N.
Current study attempts to examine the relationship between internal environmental factors and the level of adoption HRIS. An integrated conceptual framework was integrated ideas and elements from the diffusion of innovation ...
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
Productivity, Performance and Technical Efficiency in Banking: The foreign Bank’s Saga in the Context of Financial Reforms in India
(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Joseph, B.; Krishnan, B.; Ramanathan, H.N.; Suresh, T.R.
This paper is an attempt to examine the total productivity growth of foreign banks for the period 2002-2003 to 2013-2014. Data of ten major foreign sector banks for twelve years were used for the analysis and interpretation. Malmquist Productivity Index and Input oriented CRS data envelopment analysis are being used to measure the productivity of these banks over the years. Along with the productivity of foreign sector banks, their performances were also determined through ratios. The results show that the foreign sector banks has obtained an excellent mean TFP of 1.06 and nine foreign sector banks has obtained an eligible score of one which depicts that foreign sector banks are doing well in the country. The excellent performance of foreign sector banks in the banking industry is further substantiated with the ratios. The study has revealed that by enlarging the scope of foreign banks will obviously bring growth, development and technological advancement in the Indian banking Sector.
Spirituality: An Antecedent for Emotional intelligence, Employee Satisfaction, Commitment and Performance
(Wayamba Journal of Management, 2022) Mathew, G. C.; Alwis, A.C.D.; Ramanathan, H.N.
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the independent variable, spirituality's, effect on emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and employee commitment and performance. Teachers' data were gathered, and a questionnaire was issued to 500 responders, of whom 389 (77.8%) were found to be operational. By merging scales from prior empirical studies, a standard instrument was constructed. The results of the CFA were utilized to validate the structural model framework and study hypotheses. The concepts of spirituality, emotional intelligence, and professional fulfilment are all inextricably linked. Satisfaction with one's employment has a direct and beneficial effect on performance. Additional research has established a connection between dedication and performance. This exemplifies the inextricable connection between employee commitment and performance. Spirituality, the researchers discovered, is not just advantageous to the community or society as a whole; it may also act as a catalyst for organizational success.
A Vision-Information and Communication Technology Enabled Teaching: An Illusion or Reality
(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) Enniriyil, V.T.; Kurian, S.; Ramanathan, H.N.
With a whole new array of technological developments in and around the world, the Technology means are the strongest way to stay connected and relevant. As far as teachers are concerned, technology enabled teaching environment can positively reinforce their teaching methodology. This study assesses the technology perception among the teachers of government and aided schools in Kerala by examining the availability of ICT aides and teachers’ current usage of ICT in the teaching-learning processes, and also closely examining the variation of teacher perception with changing demographic dimensions like age, gender, qualification, training as well as receipt of reward for ICT use. Though research studies have been done in evaluating the effectiveness of Information and Communications Technology-enabled education in several parts of the world, minimal studies have been conducted with regard to Kerala, India. In the light of IT @ School project, an initiative by the Government of Kerala, it is highly relevant to do this study for evaluating the teacher’s views on ICT integration in curriculum delivery. A conclusive research design was used to analyze the teacher perception on Information and Communications Technology enabled education. Since the study focused onto the evaluation of teacher perception, a qualitative research approach was best suited and opted for the study. By convenience sampling, a sample of 71 Government (or Aided) High School teachers, were selected from a district in Kerala, India for the study. Data for the study was collected using a questionnaire. From the study, Information and Communications Technology tend to greatly improve their teaching efficiency. Also, the teacher perception on ICT usage was found to vary with the gender, qualification, training and receipt of incentives for ICT use.