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    GENDER AND CORRUPTION PRONE BEHAVIOR OF PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES: A CASE OF SRI LANKAN PUBLIC SECTOR INSTITUTIONS
    (2015) Silva, G.R.P.
    Many researchers revile that there exists an impeccable augmentation of corruption in all sectors both locally as well as globally. Elicits contemplation of the research focus on the relationship between employee demographics and corruption-prone behavior among the public-sector employees. In addition, it is imperati,'e to explain to what extent such relationship is being moderated by the career cycle stage of the public-sector employees in Sri Lanka. Question such as what stimulates public sector employees to engage with corruption, what differentiation could exist among different demographics towards corruption and finally this study address the impact of employee career cycle stage over the relationship between employee demographics and corruption prone behavior. Research becomes significant in terms of academic contribution to develop the cognitive enhancement of practical consideration regarding eradication of corruption in the public sector. Research is organized with reference to the deductive philosophy and mixed strategy has been utilized. Quantitativc analysis augmentcd with 611 questionnaires to clicit responses from selected representative sample and qualitatively articulated 22 interviews and ethnography are used within the selected six public sector institutions which are reported with highest level of corruption over the last 5 years. Transactional cost, agency theorem and institutional theorem were used along with the career cycle theory to build the theoretical foundation of the research. Forcefully, it has been recognized that the corruption-prone behavior is driven by the internal factors and external factors principally. Further analyses were conducted based on the three pillars, primarily descriptive statistics, secondarily correlation analysis and finally about the hypothesis texting aligned with descriptive statistics and Tukey-HSD test, A:-JOV A, and qualitative analysis, it is revealed that the career cycle stage has no moderating effect over the relationship between employee demographics and corruption-prone behavior. But in relation to both demographics and the external factors together (synchronization) career cycle stage impelled no moderating impact. Qualitative analysis revealed that with forceful articulated aspect of "fearlessness" as the key consideration of corruption due to political interference and the superior security interventions. Predominantly it concludes that female is less vulnerable to corruption than the male counterpart in Sri Lanka and external factors have therefore become more prominent as the corruption prone behavior than the demographic factor.
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    Impact of Internal Migration and Other Significant Factors on Improving Labor Productivity of Agricultural Sector
    (2011) Silva, G.R.P.
    Escalated amount of studies are being carried out by various scholars from different disciplines to estimate the extent to which labor productivity and its impact on various economic and social aspects. Primarily this study focuses on examining the relationship between labor productivity and internal migration in Sri Lanka for last 10 years. Based on the significance of the factors on labor productivity, production function was developed for the agricultural sector. Factors that are making impact on the migration are recognized based on the internal migration function. Indirect elasticity was used to analyze the bond between agricultural sector labor productivity on internal labor migration. Data were collected from secondary sources pertaining to labor productivity and internal migration during last thirty years and primary data were collected through focus group discussions. Research finding indicates that the literacy, usage of fertilizer and pesticide and production methods have significant impact on the agricultural sector productivity. Additionally wage dissimilarity and age structure has momentous impact on internal migration from rural to urban. Further it is clearly indicated that the equal distribution of power and resources and reduction in economic discrepancy among provinces could be used as tools in controlling the internal labor migration. However fair distributions of the value addition made by the agricultural sector among contributors assume to be much poor and it is considered as one of the major requirement expected by the agricultural sector participants. Improvements in the nature and the quality of the product would be substantially important for the successful addressing the internal migration issue.