9th HRM Student Research Symposium 2022
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Item Workplace Mediation and Family Support on Managing Work Stress of Insurance Sector Employees: Evidence from ABC Insurance Ltd Located in Sabaragamuwa Zone(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Palliyaguru, P. G. S. D.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of the research Presently Insurance sector organization faces a greater difficulty, and it is noted that little attempt has been taken by the researchers to integrate the workplace mediation and family support with employee work stress among Insurance sector employees in Sri Lankan literature. Hence problem of this study is to investigate impact of workplace mediation and family support on managing work stress in insurance sector employees and investigate the relationship between co-worker support, supervisor support and family support on managing their work stress of insurance sector employees in ABC insurance Ltd (Sabaragamuwa Zone). This research was enriched with a quantitative approach and self-administrative survey questionnaire was applied convenience sample 115 employees who currently worked in ABC Insurance limited in Sabaragamuwa Zone. The sample was selected using convenient sample method. To test hypothesis relationships between the constructs, the multiple regression analysis was performed using SPSS 20.0 version. There are many scholars found that workplace mediation, family support and work stress have a significant relationship. Deeply consider about demographic features of the data set. According to that, females tend to response the questionnaire in higher rate (58%) than males. And also, employees tend to response for the questionnaire who 60% are in the age range of 18 - 29 years than other age groups. Future researchers can be taken into actions to improve further research by overcoming the limitation of this study. Future researchers can expand the present study by drawing sample including another Zone of ABC insurance Ltd. This study only taken the small sample size to collect the data. So, if future researcher can take the large sample size of collect the data it may become an effective one. This would raise the levels of interests among scholars to conduct more employee work stress related studies that may contribute to the new dimensions’ organizational management.Item Impact of Perceived Usefulness and Ease of Use of HRIS on Employee Attitude and Turnover Intention: An Empirical Study in a Tiles Manufacturing Company in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Opatha, H. H. D. P. J.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.This research investigates the perceived beliefs and attitudes of employees towards human resource information systems (HRIS) in order to better understand the impact of it on individual’s turnover intention. Focusing on determinants of HRIS acceptance, the study identifies key dimensions relating to HRIS specifically perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of HRIS. The current study investigated a comprehensive case of new HRIS implementation to study unintended consequences based on employee perception levels during HRIS use. Drawing mainly on the theory of technology acceptance model and reasoned action’s theory conceptual framework was developed and tested. Data was collected from a tile manufacturing company in Sri Lanka. Selected company was recently started using HRIS during the times of covid 19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine whether there is a significant impact of employees’ belief and attitude regarding HRIS on employees’ intention to leave the organization. Accordingly, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use were considered as independent variables while turnover intention is the dependent variable. Attitude towards HRIS was also taken to the study and it was considered as a mediator between independent variables and the dependent variable. Total of 148 respondents were selected from the respective tile manufacturing company as the sample of this research. Moreover, questionnaires were used to collect the data from employees. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. The hypotheses were tested using the Correlation and regression analysis and Sobel test. Through the analysis of the study, the researcher tried to identify whether implementation of HRIS will have an impact on employees’ attitude and then turnover intention of employees in ABC tiles PLC? The findings show that perceived usefulness and ease of use of HRIS have significant impact on employee turnover intention. Furthermore, it was concluded that attitude towards HRIS plays a mediating role between perceived usefulness and turnover intention. The implications inform top management, and system administrators about the current beliefs of HRIS in the company highlighting the perspectives which can enhance or impede individual and organizational performance.Item Impact of Employee Qualification on the Career Development of Employees with Mediating Role of Employee Job Performance at ABC Banking (Pvt) Ltd.(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Nivedhari, K.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of Employee qualification on the career development of Employees with mediating role of employee job performance at ABC banking (Pvt) Ltd. Enhancing an employee's career allows organizations to develop employees' career development that is compatible with their interests, needs, and goals. Previous research has devoted little attention to the study on employee career development, which has created a performance gap in the study. In addition, this study intends to fill the knowledge gap by looking into the relationship between employee qualification, career development, and employee qualification. This study was conducted with 200 randomly selected ABC Banking (Pvt) Ltd employees, primarily using a deductive approach. The Morgan table was used to calculate the sample size. An online questionnaire was used to collect primary data by adapting a standard measurement scale. SPSS was used to analyze the data, and reliability and validity statics were used to analyze the scale's internal consistency and reliability. Advanced hypotheses were also tested using correlation and regression analysis, as well as the Sobel test used for the mediating effects. According to the study's findings, employee qualification significantly impacts career development, with employee job performance affecting as a mediator. As a result, it is recommended that ABC Banking (Pvt) Ltd employees seek to improve their qualifications, which leads to improved performance and, as a result, career development has been achieved. Further, employee qualifications having a significant direct effect on employee job performance mean that a higher level of employee qualification will result in a higher level of employee job performance and enhance the career.Item Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Career Success: Study of Managerial Level Employees in ABC Company(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Nisansala, W. A. S.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of Emotional Intelligence on Career Success of Managerial Employees. By appearing information age and the promotion of interpersonal relationships and the manifest of strategic organizational, the emotional hypothesis has had a remarkable growth and became one of the popular organizational majors. Emotional Intelligence is a comprehensive expression including extensive connection of skills and personal specifications which is above certain scope of previous knowledge like technical or professional skills. The influence of Emotional Intelligence on Career Success of ABC company managerial level employee’ s has been assessed in the current paper. Emotional Intelligence’ s in this study is: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation, Social Awareness and Social Skills. The proposed hypothesis by applying person correlation and regression tests have been assessed and the positive and meaningful influence on Emotional intelligence ‘s on career success was approved that self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, social awareness and social Skills are respectively rating the features of demographic variable have been seen among level of education variables and work experience with manager’s career success have direct relationship.Item The Impact of Work Family Conflict on Individual Job Performance in ABC Company (PVT) Ltd(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Nirmani, W. M.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of the current study is to investigate the impact of work family conflict on job performance. The main research problem of the current study is “The impact of work family conflict on individual job performance in ABC company (Pvt) Ltd”. Researcher has identified for this research is, to find out impact of work interferes to family conflict and family interferes to work conflict of employees on workplace conflict. The population of current study comprises the employees who are currently working at ABC company. Therefore, the unit of analysis is at the individual level. As the total number of observations in the population is known, convenient sampling was applied to select the sample. Hence, using the deductive approach, the target population of the study was 140 respondents relating to the clinical nurses of health care sector in ABC company. Out of 140 questionnaires distributed,104 responses were received. Primary data were collected by adopting standard measurements scale via an online questionnaire survey. Collected data were analyzed through the Statical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). Cronbach’s Alpha values were used to ensure the reliability of measurements scale. Cronbach’s Alpha values were used to ensure the reliability of measurements scale. The results of the study indicate that work interferes to family conflict and family interferes to work conflicts are negatively correlated with employee’s individual job performance. Further, it is recommended for employees to feel they are working at a safe place, and it will be the best place for employees to work.Item Impact of Employee Relationship Management on Employee Job Performance in ABC (PVT) LTD.(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Niranjan, K.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of employee relationship management on employee job performance in ABC (PVT) LTD. This study's primary goal is to investigate how employee relationship management, including elements like communication, conflict management, leadership style, shared values and goals, and trust, affects employees' performance in the ABC company. The study used a cross-sectional descriptive research design and a deductive quantitative research strategy. In addition, fixed and simple sampling techniques were used to choose BPO employees and collect information from respondents, respectively. Operational level employees who work in the BPO sector Sri Lanka were chosen as the population of this study. Sample size was 200 observations and used primary data as data source. Data collection was done through a self-administrated questionnaire. A Google form was created and distributed to collect data. The number of employees who responded was 154 among 200 employees. Statistical Package for social science (SPSS) version 23.0 was used as tool for data analysis and both descriptive and inferential statistics, namely regression and correlation were used to analyze data. The results indicate that Employee relationship management and it components has a significant positive effects on employee job performance.Item The Influence of Motherhood over Professional Advancement: Study of Working Mothers in Lanka Sathosa Limited – Head Office(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022) Nazar, T. R.; Darshani, R. K. N. D.The purpose of this research is to identify the influence of Motherhood over Professional Advancement. In addition to that, this study intends to contribute to fill the knowledge gap by looking into the relation between Motherhood and Professional Advancement. Although the relationship between Motherhood and Professional Advancement established in western literature, very few studies have examined these with Professional Advancement in the Sri Lankan context. This study explored the relationship and examined the influence of those variables among working mothers who work in a retail organization in Sri Lanka. This research is a deductive (theory – testing) research. This research was conducted using survey research strategy and quantitative research method. Working mothers of Lanka Sathosa Limited – Head office were chosen as the population of the study. Simple sampling technique was used calculate the sample size. Accordingly, sample size was 150 observations and used primary data as data source, data collection was done through a self-administered questionnaire. A Google form was created and distributed to collect data. The number of employees who responded was 130 among 150 employees. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 23.0 was used as tool for data analysis and both descriptive and inferential statistics, namely correlation and regression were used to analyze data. The results indicate that Motherhood has significant direct effects on Professional Advancement.