Commerce and Financial Management
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Item Job stress of executive level employees: case of apparel sector in Sri Lanka(2016) Jayarathna, S.M.D.Y.; Rathnayake, L.R.Item An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Employee Motivation and Productivity of Executive Employees with Special Reference to the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka(2014) Jayarathna, S.M.D.Y.The area of motivation has been receiving a lot of attention both by behavioral scientists as well as by industrial psychologists. As well motivation affects individual behavior and it related to performance and productivity of the organization as the human is a unique resource compared to other resources. Therefore today’s management highly focused on the impact of employee motivation towards the productivity, since it ultimately affects achieving the organizational goals and objectives and also it drives towards achieving the competitive advantage. Therefore there is a need of investigating the impact of employee motivation on employee productivity. So this research was conducted with the objective of identifying the impact of employee motivation on productivity of the employees. The independent variable is employee motivation and the dependent variable is productivity of executive employees. This study was engaged in hypothesis testing and it was corelational and this research study was conducted in the natural environment where work proceeds normally (noncontrived). Data was collected from each individual: executive employees of the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka. The analysis was based on the information collected using a self administered questionnaire. Data used for analysis were totally based on primary data which was collected using a questionnaire developed by the researcher. According to the results, there is an impact on employee motivation and productivity of executive employees and there is a relationship between employee motivation and productivity of executive employees, which is significant. Based on that it can be concluded that productivity of executive employees have been affected by the employee motivation.Item Impact of Leadership on Team Work, Culture, and Emotions and Moods of Employees: A Case Study in a Government Bank in Sri Lanka(2015) Jayarathna, S.M.D.Y.Organizational behavior is the study of how people behave both individually and within informal and formal groups, and in organizations. Every organization’s performance is ultimately dependent on the motivational level of its human resources and the willingness and ability of people to work harmoniously and effectively towards the accomplishment of shared goals. Identifying the organizational behavior concepts is more important to make resolutions for the issues that emerge within organizations. Banking industry is an industry where problems are intense and the management should understand the human behavior in order to manage them to excel in the competitive market. Culture, emotions and moods, and teams are much more important concepts in Organizational Behavior and the banks and the leaders therein must have knowledge on these concepts in order to achieve the goals and objectives effectively. This articleis developed by identifying an issue which occurred in a government bank in Sri Lanka and the case has been analyzed through culture, emotions and moods, and teams which are important perspectives of Organization Behavior.Item The effect of Employee Work Related Attitudes on Employee Job Performance: A Study of Tertiary and Vocational Education Sector in Sri Lanka(2014) Hettiararchchi, H.A.H.; Jayarathna, S.M.D.Y.Job performance of the employees in tertiary and vocational education sector is really important since that decides survival of this sector. Also employee attitudes are related to different aspects of human life most importantly the job he/she involved in. These attitudes are rooted in the mind of them and come out from the behaviour of the employee. Thus to sustain within the competition and to achieve the competitive advantage, it is vital to focus on the attitudes and respective job performance of the employees in a significant manner. In Sri Lankan context, there is a need to investigate that how does these employee work related attitudes affect on the job performance of the employees in the tertiary and vocational education sector in Sri Lanka. Therefore the objective of this is to identify the impact of employee attitudes on job performance. The dependent variable was employee job performance and the independent variable was employee work related attitudes consist with three sub variable named; job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job involvement. The reliability of the instruments were tested against the collected data. The purpose of this study was hypotheses testing, the type was correlational study and conducted in noncontrived setting. This study was cross sectional in time and the unit of analysis in this research was individual as the data was collected from the employees working in Tertiary and Vocational Education Sector in Sri Lanka. The questionnaire was developed by the researchers was used to collect data for the study. Findings of the study reveal that 26.7% of the variance of the job performance was significantly explained by three independent variables. Consequently, it can be concluded as that there is a significant impact of employee related work attitudes on job performance of the employees of the tertiary and vocational education of government sector in Sri Lanka.