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Item Estimation of Leisure Benefit of Leisure Time Consumption as an Economic Product: A BAL analysis(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ramanaka, A.R.N.D.; Semasinghe, W.M.; Wehigaldeniya, W.G.D.S.; Oshani, P.A.L.; Dilshani, P.Y.H.; Dissanayake, N.B.Leisure benefits are non-monitory gains that lead to the positive changes in the needs of individuals or substantial environments, including interpersonal relationships, physical fitness, alleviation of social problems, and stabilization of communities. The purpose of this study was to estimate the leisure benefits of leisure time consumption for the national production. There was one independent variable called Leisure Time (LT) and dependent variable was Benefits of Leisure (BOL), in this study. The secondary and primary data were collected in a survey of a sample comprising on 60 person. The Benefits Approach to Leisure (BAL) is used to measure leisure benefits considering leisure benefits areas as a production for leisure time. According to the findings there is opportunity cost which borne their time choice and leisure and Revenue undertakings. On the other hand amount and quality of leisure time is important for people‘s well-being due to the direct satisfaction it brings. Additionally, leisure, taken in certain ways, is important for physical and mental health of a person. Leisure also contributes to the well-being of people other than the person directly enjoying leisure. When a person engages in leisure, the benefits gained are shared with others in a multitude of ways, including improvements in personal relationships, family functioning, and in terms of creation of social capital networks (at least from some types of shared leisure).Item A study on factors affecting to work-life balance of employees: with special reference to manufacturing organizations in western province, Sri Lanka(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dilshani, P.Y.H.; Wickramarathne, P.D.V.C.Work-life balance is an increasingly demanding issue. Nowadays organizations are more focusing on staffing function by capturing talented human capital and great efforts are made to the occupational wellness of the employees. Researchers have been done many studies to measure the work-life balance that prevails in various countries. Although work has been done in many areas of work- life balance of employees, occupational wellness much more need to address in Sri Lankan context in order to maintain a healthy environment. With the theoretical approach of Seiwart’s Life Balance Model and “Enrichment theory” as a joint function the purpose of this study was constructed as identifying underlined factor that explains the model towards work-life balance of selected population. The research question addressed by the study is what is the underlined factor which best explains towards the work-life balance of the employees? A questionnaire was developed by using Life-Balance Questionnaire, a self-report scale (Gropel, 2004) which covered four life areas namely 1.Contact/Relationships 2.Work/Achievement 3. Body/Health and Life Meaningfulness. Internal reliability was also confirmed using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (0.97) which consisted of 20 items. By taking KMO value 0.702, sampling adequacy is higher than minimum index which indicates “sampling adequacy’ is an acceptable level. The results suggested body/health is best variable to underline indicating 0.72 of communality value. Based on the findings, the researchers would recommend organizations should concern about the wellness approach when they make the company policies in order to fulfill its version through maintaining work-life Balance.Item Ranking Cricket Players According to Their Efficiency of Performances: A Criterion Formulation for a Minimum Error Team Selection(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ramanaka, A.R.N.D.; Bandara, K.A.W.P.; Wehigaldeniya, W.G.D.S.; Oshani, P.A.L.; Dilshani, P.Y.H.; Jayantha, K.This research suggests a new criterion for cricket team selection using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with the objective of selecting a team which has a minimum error in team selection. It proposes a DEA formulation for evaluation of cricket players in different capabilities and their efficiencies of performance using multiple outputs. For instances, batting, bowling all rounding, wicket keeping, and fielding capabilities. This evaluation determines efficient and inefficient cricket players and ranks them on the basic of DEA scores. The ranking can be used to choose the required number of players for a cricket team in each cricketing capability. A real data set which belongs to Sri Lankan Cricket team during ICC world cup 2015 is associated with the data analysis process. Cricket players having various capabilities is used to choose the best cricket team. For this purpose, the secondary data were derived from “ESPN” cricinfo web site (Which is reputed web site for international cricket data). The proposed method has the advantage of considering multiple factors related to the performance of players in multiple capabilities and aggregates their scores using a DEA model in linear programming frame work. This DEA aggregation gives the scores of players objectively instead of using subjective computations. The findings of this study suggest that DEA has the potential to select players to the Cricket team fairly. There for these findings cane be used to player’s selection in local and national cricket team selection as objective selection criteria.