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Item Personality Dimensions as Predictors of Job Satisfaction Of IT Employees in Sri Lanka(2011) Ubayachandra, E.G.; Silva, H.W.N.S.Under this study an attempt was made to investigate into relationship existing between personality dimensions and job satisfaction of IT employees attached to leading companies in Sri Lanka. For this purpose, four companies namely Ind. And financial system Sri Lanka ltd, Millennium Software Ltd, John Keels Computer service (pvt) Ltd, and Virtusa (pvt) Ltd. For the convenience of analysis, a sample consisting of 125 employees were selected by using simple random sample technique. Out of these four companies 32 employees were selected from Millennium Software Ltd. while 31 employees per each of other three companies were selected for the analysis. As this study is empirical in nature, a great attempt was made to collect primary data as much as possible by administering a detailed questionnaire which was subjected to a pilot study with a view to clarify reliability and validity of questions. In addition, further information was collected through a series of interviews held with senior management and other low level employees. For collecting additional information an endeavor was made to associate secondary data too. For this purpose, related documentary evidences such as electronically stored data /data mining were used. The focal problem of the study is existence of number of bottlenecks in software development industry in Sri Lanka. The key purpose of the study was to examine the correlation between personality dimensions and job satisfaction. Specific objectives were to identify the correlation between job performance and job satisfaction and to make a better set of suggestions to improve job performance and job satisfaction through the development of personality. Accordingly two research questions consistent with so-called objectives were addressed. They are, is there any relationship between personality dimensions and job satisfaction? What is the relationship between job performance and job satisfaction? The Big-Five personality dimensions were applied to conceptualize the respective theme of the study. For presenting data out of the descriptive statistical tools percentage values, mean, mode and standard deviation were used. Furthermore, in testing hypotheses the well known chi-square test was completely employed. Resulting from the analysis it was found that there is a direct relationship between personality dimensions and job satisfaction of IT employees in Sri Lankan leading companies. The most significant finding is that emotional stability, extraversion and consciousness dimensions are consistently valid predictors for all job categories there. All these dimensions are positively correlated with job satisfaction. And also it was noted that job performance and job satisfaction are almost interrelated each other.Item Emotional Intelligence and Employee Productivity: An Educator?s Perspective(2011) Rebello, F.S.Emotional intelligence is essential factor responsible for determining success in life & at work place. Psychological wellbeing seems to play an important role in shaping the behavior & performance of individual?s work-life environment. This study is undertaken to understand the performance level of teachers/lecturers in educational institutions in Maldives, the study focuses on understanding emotional intelligence of teachers/lecturers, its connectivity to their performance on the job. This paper examines the impact of four significant aspects of Emotional Intelligence that is self awareness, self management, social awareness and relationship management. Data for this study was collected through questionnaire and the respondents were the school heads of Academic Institutions. The results revealed that there is connectivity between emotional intelligence and employee productivity. A teacher/ lecturer with better emotional intelligence can perform better in-terms of class delivery, leading the team & building trust among colleagues and the surrounding network.Item Managerial Perception of Unionization and Its Effect in Sri Lankan Public Sector Organizations(2011) Dhammika, K.A.S.; Ahmed, F.B.; Sam, T.L.Public sector organizations in Sri Lanka are characterized with high unionization of their employees. This has created a unique context, where managers of these organizations face a problem of managing them with the conventional thought of management. Most of the public sector organizations have failed to achieve the expected level of performance which has caused criticism against them. Therefore, there is a need of a study to explore this situation prevailing in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. As a first step of a series of empirical exploration, an attempt was made to understand the issues of employee unionization in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. A purposive sample of fifty middle and lower level managers of the public sector organizations was drawn. A self developed questionnaire was administered among respondents, and data was analyzed with the tools of descriptive analysis such as frequency distribution, mean and median. Since this is a preliminary study, the attempt was made to understand the union perception of managers of the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. It was found that managers differ in their perception of unionization and the effect of unionization varies at different managerial activities. Among them, decision making, implementation and evaluation were found to be mostly affected by the employee unionization. Further, it was found that perceived performance ranged along with the perception of managers and strategies dealing with unionized employees. However, a deep and rigorous study is needed to understand this complex contextual scenario.