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Efficiency of Internship Programme in University of Kelaniya
(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; Dissanayake, D.K.S.M.A.; de Silva, A.K.M.; Kamalawarna, R.S.S.
Social Network Usage of Government Employees in Sri Lanka
(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; Madushani, H.D.P.; Perera, L.G.D.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Nayomi, W.V.P.M.; Kulasinghe, K.S.R.; Madushanka, G.L.D.H.C.
In a modern day workplace social media place’s a pivotal role in various areas and provide certain benefits to a company such as easy sharing of information, Attune everyone in the organization to each other's needs and improve the way individuals think collectively etc. Due to that, social networks are associated with the productivity of an organization. Hence, this study was carried out with the following two objectives. They are identifying the factors affected for using social network sites by government employees and the government employees’ behavior on social network sites. The sample of this study was selected using two-stage cluster sampling method and it was selected from the Colombo district. Primary data were collected by using the structured interview method. From this study it was discovered that government employee’s age is the only factor that affects for using social media sites. More than three quarters of the government employees accessed social networking sites in the office and most of them used SNS’s for personal matters. Hence, number of working hours were wasted. Thereby government organizations should create their own set of rules, guidelines and policies to reduce the wasted time. Also monitoring the employee behavior on SNSs is a better way to effectively manage the use of SNSs by government employees.
Socio- Economic background of the female inmates of elderly homes in Sri Lanka
(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, D.K.S.M.A.; Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; de Silva, A.K.M.; Kamalawarna, R.S.S.
Population ageing is a phenomenon that occurs due to the lower death rate and lower birth rate. Due to the decrease of death and birth rates, ageing is a result of the demographic transition. Among the Asian countries, Sri Lanka has come to the first place, which is having a higher rate in the demographic transition. There is a 13.2% of elderly dependency ratio in Sri Lanka according to the newest reports (2015) of Census of Statistics. So as to that this study aimed to investigate the Socio and Economic factors which influenced those elderly women to be at the elderly homes special reference to Iring Thilakarathna elders home in Imbulgoda. Simple random sampling method has used as the sampling technique in order to select 25 elderly women as the sample. A questionnaire, which had 19 questions, has used to find the factors, which influenced them to stay in elderly home such as poverty, no one to care, misbehavior of their laws, freedom etc. Statistical techniques such as tables, graphs, percentages, Chi-square test and correlation etc. have been used to analyze the data. According to findings most of them were poor in their economic situation and they do not like to bother their children as well. The majority of those elderly women were in the age group of 70-80 and they believe staying in an elderly home allowed them to keep away from the problematic background of their home. According to the results, specially the attitude problems of their children and their lives styles have thrown their older mothers to the such a place and they have created a background that those mothers are loneliness and helpless though they have number of children.