5th Student Symposium - 2018
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Item The Impact of Person-Environment Congruence on Employee Retention Intention of Machine Operators in Selected Apparel Firms in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka(5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Perera, A. A. A. I.; Weerasinghe, T. D.This study examined the impact of person-environment congruence (i.e., employee-organization congruence, employee-job congruence and leader-follower congruence) on employee retention intention of machine operators in apparel companies. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire. Convenience sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 88 machine operators from two apparel firms in Gampaha district in Sri Lanka. The data was analyzed using the computer based statistical data analysis package, SPSS (Version 23.0). Findings revealed that there is a significant impact of Employee-organization congruence, Employee-job congruence and Leader-follower congruence on employee retention intention. Furthermore, results indicated that employee-organization congruence was highly impact on employee retentionItem The Effect of Marital Status upon the Relationship between Career Attitudes and Subjective Career Success(5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Withanage, V. S.; Weerasinghe, T. D.The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of civil status upon the relationship between career attitudes and subjective career success. By reviewing the literature, it is found that there is a relationship between career attitudes of oneself and their subjective career success, and the gender has an effect on this, yet the effect of marital status is an untouched topic. This study is quantitative and data were collected through a structured questionnaire. The convenience sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 62 working employees in Sri Lanka. The data was analyzed using SPSS statistical package and correlation, regression and ANOVA tests were used. The study found that there is a moderate positive relationship between self-directed career attitudes and subjective career success, marital status has a moderating effect on it, where the married has a stronger positive relationship than unmarried. The findings of the study support the general idea that married people tend to have careers that match their personal requirements, thus frequently, they are the navigators of their own career. Major recommendations are, identifying different career attitudes identical to one another by both individual and organizational level in order to succeed individually as well as an organization, as the subjective career success increase organizational performance as a whole. In order to increase subjective career success, organizational wise, conducting career counseling programs by appointing a permanent career counselor, establishing a career development unit and conducting programs under it such as career workshops, counseling sessions, attitude building programs etcItem The Impact of the Social Media Usage of Generation Y on Their Individual Performance: A Study of Staff and Executive Level Employees in United Motors Lanka PLC(5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Wishwakeerthi, M. M. G.; Weerasinghe, T. D.Social media is all about awareness and connection, and presently the social networking seems to be the tool that affects job performance of employee in the workplace. Gen Y employees has addicted to social media and they spent their entire lives in the digital environment. The new media is growing so fast that it makes it imperative for employees to embrace the medium. The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of social media usage of gen Y employees on their individual performance. The study was quantitative and a cross-sectional survey design was followed. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire. 80 staff and executive level employees of united motors Lanka PLC, were used as a sample for the study and simple random sampling method was used in this study. The results show that, the weak negative insignificant relationship between social media usage of Y gen employees at workplace with their individual job performance within the related context was the major findings of the study. It reveals there is no any significant impacts of social media usage of gen Y employees on their individual performance in selected context. Finally, whether social media have or not Y gen employees are performed and social media has become insignificant factor towards their individual performance. Accordingly, study suggests to use social media as a communication and entertainment tool at the UML company contextItem Determinant of Success of Operational Level Employees Empowerment: Evidence from Operational Level Employees in Apparel Manufacturing in Sri Lanka(5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Wijethilakaka, P. D. M. C.; Weerasinghe, T. D.The concept and the practice of employee empowerment Human Resource Management is an important concept for the apparel sector as well. Because empowerment leads to both job satisfaction and organization’s goals achievements. Highly satisfied staff is most important in achieving this target. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate the factors of success of employee empowerment with special reference two garments factories in Kegalle and Gampaha area. In deciding the sample size of the Supporting employees for this research the researcher used 100 operational level employees for the sample. To test the hypothesis of this study, primary data were used. Primary data were collected through comprehensive Questionnaires given to Machine Operators and Supervisors. The data which collected from the questionnaire, analyzed descriptively using tables, frequencies and percentages. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 23 was used for statistical analysis process. Those data presented by using tables and graphs. According to the participants’ responses and the analysis of this study employee empowerment has a positive and significant impact on organization culture, leadership style, communication style and self-esteem leads towards higher level of employee’s empowerment. This study contributes to overcome the problems of employee empowerment in apparel sector and given a fair idea that which factors affected to the success of employee empowerment in apparel industry