IPRC - 2017
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Item Entrepreneurship Awareness amongst the University Academics in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka.(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.; Pathirathna, S.An Entrepreneur is a person who takes the jeopardy of starting his own business or enterprise or investing in other startups for the purport of achieving their goal with the desire and the capability to innovate and diversify. It is verbalized that entrepreneurship is the main reason for the economic development a country. The objective of this study was to quantify the knowledge and awareness about the entrepreneurship amongst the University Academics in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka, predicated on the concept of engendering vigilance about it. The survey method was used in this research to gather the data from the Academics. The questionnaire comprised of five segments as each section focuses on the proportions of the entrepreneurship awareness. These questions are based on the knowledge and the awareness and also the abilities of the entrepreneurship. Sample sizes of 100 academics were investigated. The respondent population consisted of 60 males and 40 females. The results denoted that 90% of the male academics and 85% female academics are well aware of Entrepreneurship. There was no significant relationship between gender Entrepreneurship Awareness and Most of the academics are stated that they came to know about this entrepreneurship from the conferences conducted by educational institutions. Seventy-seven academics revealed that they knew a lot about the benefits of the entrepreneurship. Fifty-two are very interested to start the new business, whereas 36 academics who are well educated about the entrepreneurship are not interested in beginning new firm. Males are well aware of the entrepreneurship benefits and they are ready to take the risks compared to the women in Kurunegala District. This research has given the opportunity to ken about the vigilance and cognizance about the entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial erudition is must for the academics so that they can inspirit the entrepreneurship among the students and it may enable to edify them or victual them with cognizance about entrepreneurship.Item Study of Decision-Making Skills of Government and Private School Principals in Gampha District, Sri Lanka.(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Pathirathna, S.; Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.Decision making is selecting the appropriate option from different options. For any human being, decision making is very necessary as this is the main criteria for judging the mental ability of anyone. The principal is the backbone of any school administration. Most of the decisions are given by principal for the development of the school. In the given study, investigators compare the decision-making skills of government and private schools as well as male and female school principals. Objectives of the study are to compare the decisionmaking skills of government and private school principals in Gampaha district on the basis of gender and to compare the decision-making skills of government and private secondary school principals. The sample of the study consisted of 80 participants. The sample consists of 40 government and 40 private school principals. The sample was taken using purposive sampling. For the assessment of decision-making in school principals Decision-Making Style Scale was validated and used. Statistical techniques like Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test was used. Results denote that gender has not affected the decision-making skills of government and private school principals. Also, it is evident that significant difference exists between decisions making skills (i.e. routine, compromise, heuristic) of government school principals and private school principals. All the mean score for the government school principals are higher than the mean score of private school principals. This study despite that government school principal‘s decision making is more accurate than private school principals. On the other hand, there is no significant difference between decision-making skills on the basis of gender. The reason behind the first result may be Government school‘s principals are more independent than private school principals because government principles have to implement the policy. Private school principals have to follow the instruction from the management.