5th Student Symposium - 2018

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    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 context
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    The Impact of X and Y Generation Difference on Employee Motivation
    (5th HRM Student Research Symposium 2018, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Erangani, M. D. I.; Gamage, P. N.
    The purpose of this research paper is to assess the impact of X and Y generation difference on employee motivation in ABC Private Hospital. In this study, X and Y generation difference was taken as the independent variable and employee motivation was taken as the dependent variable and assess the impact of the generation difference on five motivation factors from the Herzberg Motivation Theory; Growth, Achievements, Job Itself, Recognition and Advancement Motivation. The main objective of the study is to assess the impact of X and Y generation difference on employee motivation. There are five specific objectives and six hypotheses were developed in this study. The data was collected from 50 back office staff members from the hospital by using the convenient sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was distributed to collect primary data and the data was analyzed using the Independent Sample T Test. The study revealed that there is a difference of each generation’s motivation factors. X generation employees prefer Achievement motivation while the Y generation employees prefer Job Itself motivation. It is recommended that the employer should have a sound knowledge on each generation’s preference and should satisfy two distinct generations according to their preference in order to retain them for a long time.