Browsing by Author "Sarathchandra, K.S.H."
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Item Corporate social media usage of Sri Lankan public quoted companies(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Sarathchandra, K.S.H.; Jayarathna, L.C.H.Item Factors Determining the Addiction of Sri Lankan Software Engineers towards Social Networks(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Priyadarshana, G.L.S.; Yatigammana, M.R.K.N.; Sarathchandra, K.S.H.A new form of social web communities where people meet each other, share interests and activities are on an exponential growth on social networking sites. Hence, in recent decades a rapid development of innovative internet based communication has emerged. It is a known fact that the software engineers face work-family life issues due to many reasons such as heavy work load, rigid deadlines, and work over time, etc. Thus, this research tends to investigate whether the software engineers are addicted to social networking sites to gain their lacking social behaviors such as social interaction, communication and entertainment etc. due to the nature of their profession. This study is hypothesized that the social network addiction is influenced by the attributes of social media networks namely; Social Interaction, Entertainment, and Communication. Structured questionnaire consists of three sections with 26 Likert scale questions was administered among 140 randomly selected software professionals and 84 responses were collected. Regression model was developed to identify and interpret the relationships. Through the analysis, it is identified that the majority of software engineers highly use social networking sites for communication and social interaction activities and all the three factors are positively correlated towards social network addictionItem Personality and Undergraduate Performance: An Assessment of the Big Five Personality Model(Department of Commerce and Financial Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Gunarathna, M.A.S.Y.; Gunewardana, W.N.N.; Gunewardana, W.N.N.; Imalka, K.D.S.P.; Nimeshi, G.K.S.; Ranwala, R.S.; Sarathchandra, K.S.H.; Silva, A.R.; Silva, M.T.M.The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Personality and Job Performance. In order to construct the above mentioned relationship with related to job performance we have used the dimensions of the big five personality model dimensions which are Extroversion, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Open to Experience and Agreeableness. As the methodology, a questionnaire was used as the research instrument.Particularly, the study was conducted in the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, among the undergraduates of the Faculty of Commerce and Management studies. Multiple regression analysis of the study was used to prove the stated hypothesis of the study and the researcher concludes that the dimensions in the big five personality model make an impact on the job performance of the undergraduates. Finally, the researcher suggests the Job performance levels varies among high and low categories of Open to experience, Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Extroversion and Conscientiousness.