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An Empirical Study on the Impact of Hygiene and Motivation Factors on Job Satisfaction of Bank Executives in Western Province, Sri Lanka
(2011) Dissanayake, D.R.; Wickremasinghe, M.T.P.
In the organizational sciences, job satisfaction occupies a central role in many theories and models of individual attitudes and behaviors. The problem of job dissatisfaction exists across various spheres of industries around the world although numerous theories have been established and empirical studies conducted to address the problem. Hence, more researches and empirical studies pertaining to the concept of job satisfaction are essential in order to enhance the boundaries of existing knowledge. Although theories of job satisfaction have been extensively studied, researchers are yet to agree on the major predictors of Herzberg?s two factor theory of job satisfaction, Hygiene factors and Motivation factors. Further, it seems very rare to find a good empirical study with respect to job satisfaction of bankers in Sri Lankan context. This is the research gap that will be addressed in this empirical study. This study aims at finding out the impact of Hygiene and Motivation Factors on job satisfaction of bank executives (junior and middle level) of Commercial banks in Western Province, Sri Lanka. To investigate this, a quantitative empirical study was conducted using a self-designed questionnaire on the selected convenient sample (n = 200). Then reliability (Cronbach?s Alpha) of the questionnaire was determined and the questionnaire was found to be reliable. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated. The findings indicated that 85% of the variance in job satisfaction is significantly explained by hygiene and motivation factors. Further, the study reveals that except for salary, benefits, working condition, relationship with peers and growth, other hygiene and motivation factors are not significant predictors of the job satisfaction. But, if individually taken, all the hygiene and motivation factors are significantly correlate with job satisfaction. It is, therefore, recommended that the banks should focus on hygiene and motivation factors very seriously when crafting and executing new strategies. This will ensure that the banks remain sustainable and continue to make a positive contribution to Sri Lankan economy.
Work-Family Conflict of Women Employees (Special Reference to Banking Sector) in Batticaloa District
(2011) Victor, L.D.; Thavakumar, D.
The question of how to strike a balance between work and life is attracting increasing attention at both the national and international level (Crompton and Lyonette, 2006). Interest in this issue has grown with the increase in dual career couples and single-parent households and the concomitant decrease in traditional single income families. As long as the society continues to emphasize a woman?s basic role as that of mothering, working women will face role struggles. As married working women, many women employees have to assume multiple roles in the family in addition to their career. They must be bear major responsibility for household chores and childcare. These responsibilities give rise to work-family conflict, which becomes an obstacle in managing their employment. This research studies the work-family conflict among married women employees in banking sector. The data for this study came from 100 married women in public and private banks who responded to a self-administered questionnaire. By using the primary data, the researchers tend to find out the extent of work characteristics and family characteristics influence on the Work-Family conflict. The work characteristics include Number of hours worked, work flexibility, work stressors. The family characteristics include number of children, age of children, family support. ICBI 2011 Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies 2 The researchers used the questionnaire to collect the primary data. Also researchers used interview method to clarify the things. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse the data, Mean and standard deviation was used in the descriptive statistics to find out the influence of each factor in the dependent variable, stress. And the correlation and regression was done to find out the relationship between independent and dependent variable. The SPSS 14.0 package was used to analyze the data. From the discussion of the findings, several implications arouse. There is a need for greater spouse support, flexible work schedule child care centers and family support in order to alleviate work-family conflict. Maintenance of good marital relations is important in reducing spouse conflict and increasing well being in women employee.
Comparisons of job related variables between temporary and permanent academics: Case from University of Ruhuna
(2011) Galhena, B.L.
This paper aims to investigate the differences of job related variables: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job stress and intention to quit, between temporary and permanent academics in Sri Lanka. Further, the gender differences with respects to job related outcome variable also explored. Data were collected using self reported questionnaire from 142 academics in University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. Males (n=63) and females (N=79) were almost equally represented in the sample and academics from three faculties were considered for the study. Survey results revealed that there are no significant differences among jobs related variables between temporary and permanent academics except for intention to quit. Further, it was found that there is no significant differences between male and female academics with regards to the entire four job related variables tested in the study. Few empirical researches have been conducted on this aspect in Sri Lankan context. Findings of the study would be important for university administrators in making policy decision for motivating and recruiting temporary academics.

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