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    IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT WITH MEDIATING EFFECT OF INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: A STUDY OF MARKETING STAFF AT XYZ FINANACE COMPANY IN SRI LANKA
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Devindi, M. P. H. T.; Welmilla, I.
    The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of employee recognition on employee engagement with mediating effect of intrinsic motivation among marketing Staff at XYZ Finance Company in Sri Lanka. This study employed a quantitative research approach with a cross-sectional survey design to examine the impact of employee recognition on employee engagement, with intrinsic motivation as a mediating factor. The target population consisted of marketing staff at XYZ Finance Company in Sri Lanka, totaling 180 employees. Using Morgan’s sample size table, a sample of 123 employees was selected through a proportionately stratified sampling, followed by simple random sampling to ensure equal representation. For data analysis, reliability analysis, correlation, and ANOVA were conducted to examine relationships between variables. Hayes' PROCESS macro was used for mediation analysis to assess the indirect effect of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between employee recognition and engagement. The study revealed that employee recognition significantly impacts employee engagement and intrinsic motivation partially mediates this relationship, with a significant indirect effect. As a recommendation, organizations should identify ways to motivate employees, which in turn boosts engagement. Practical implications emphasize the need for organizations to design tailored recognition programs that meet employees' intrinsic and extrinsic needs to enhance retention and performance. This study contributes to the limited literature on employee engagement strategies within Sri Lanka's finance industry, with recommendations for expanding research into diverse sectors and generations to validate and extend the findings.
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    Non - Interest Income and Performance of Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference for Accounting Researchers and Educators, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Karunarathne, W.G.S.M.; Aruppala, W.D.N.
    Non interest income of banks improve the total income, since banks can expand the source of income by diversifying their income while reducing business risks. Accordingly, non-interest income is an extra source of income for commercial banks which is essential to enhance their profitability. ATM technology, personal lending and loan quality are among the main microeconomic factors driving the performance in non-interest income in the commercial banking sector. This study investigated impact of non-interest income on bank performance in case of licensed commercial banks in Sri Lanka for the period of 2007 to 2017. 26 licensed commercial banks were selected as sample of the study. The study conducted based on secondary data which was collected from audited annual reports and published database of the Colombo Stock Exchange and data analyzed by using E-Views statistic software. The results reveal that relying on non-interest income activities may adversely affect bank performance. Findings suggest that only a small proportion of banks present an increase in efficiency level with inclusion of non-interest income, while no significant changes are seen on most banks’ efficiency levels. Also, further finds that the relationship between the share of non-interest income to the net operating revenue and the bank efficiency score is not significant
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    Spirituality: A Boon for Organizational Performance.
    (8th International Conference on Business & Information ICBI – 2017, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Mathew, G. C.; Prashar, S.; Ramanathan, H. N.; Arunchand, C. H.
    Organizational management is one of the contemporary delinquents, most of the organizations have to address. The issues like job satisfaction, employee commitment and employee performance are the crucial factors of organizational management. Spirituality is a prominent and actual factor that can speed up satisfaction, commitment and performance. A substantial research gap connecting spirituality with job satisfaction, employee commitment and employee performance exist. This study reconnoiters the link between spirituality and job satisfaction and the influence of job satisfaction on employee commitment and performance. The study adopted a survey method to collect data from teachers from six different streams. To measure convergent and discriminant validities, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was adopted and later tested the structural model framework and research hypotheses. Findings of the current study suggest that spirituality has a direct influence on employee satisfaction and also endorse the linkages between job satisfaction, employee commitment and performance.
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    COOPERATION NETWORK CLIENT- FOURNISEUR AND PERFORMANCE OF PARTICIPATING COMPANIES: INTEGRATION OF CULTURAL CONTEXT.
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Djamen, R.
    The network is a polysemous notion which, whether it is the object of a plentiful literature, remains complex to understand. We can define this concept, also known under the appelation of " virtual company " (Byrne, on 1993), " reticular organization " (Paché and Paraponaris, on 1993), " modular company " (Brilman, on 1995), or still " begun transactional " (Frery, on 1997), " as an implicit or explicit association of agents, industrial companies and services(departments), institutions evolving in domains often complementariness and having for object to move closer to varied resources, to develop relationships of trust between the members of these groups and to reduce the costs of obtaining of these resources, decreasing in this fact the short and long-term uncertainty on the market " (OECD, on 1993, in Joffre, on 1998). The cultural context is indeed at the heart of the shares of cooperation, although this dimension is untold, as if it was obvious, as if the common objectives transcend these differences of conception and management of the collective action, as if the willingness was enough, or as if the common professional culture (entrepreneur, jurist, etc.) allowed a natural dialogue between the peers. This research aims at encircling the ins and outs of the normative impact of the theories of the cooperation. She results in the perspectives in commercial transactions of B to B even in international transactions (deals), in particular by proposing a railing of reflection for the adaptation to the specific contexts. She results naturally in tracks of deepening of the interrogation on the cultural context in the interbegun ways of cooperation.
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    The Effect of Corporate Governance on Performance of the banking Industry in Sri Lanka
    (Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Lekamge, A.L.I.C.; Thilakarathne, C.R.
    In the worst financial crisis, the banking sector faces to more difficulties. According to the studies that difficulties build on the lack of corporate governance in banks and companies. Purpose of this study was to identify the impact of Corporate Governance for the Banking Profitability in Sri Lanka. Board size, Board Ownership, Management ownership and the Board balance were used as the determinant factors and the Return on Assets was used for the performance indicator. Nine listed Commercial Banks over nine years were selected for the analysis. Descriptive analysis, Pearson Correlation and the regression analysis methods were used to find out relationship between the corporate governance and banking performance. One main model constructed under the regression analysis. Result of the analysis were found that there was significant relationship between Board size and the Board ownership. There was no significance relationship between Management Ownership and the Board Balance. According to the analysis the overall model is significant and the Corporate Governance is significantly affected to the Profitability of the banking industry in Sri Lanka.
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    A Study on Relationship between Working Capital Management and Firms’ Performance: Comparison between Manufacturing Sector and Food & Beverage Sector in Colombo Stock Exchange
    (Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Karunarathne, R.M.H.L.; Karunarathne, W.V.A.D.
    This study examines the relationship between working capital management (WCM) on firms’ performance and also compare the correlation results in between manufacturing sector and the food and beverage sector firms in Sri Lanka. The goal of WCM is to ensure that the firm is able to continue its operations and that it has adequate cash flows to satisfy both maturing shortterm debt and upcoming operational expenses at minimal costs, and consequently, increasing corporate profitability (Angahar & Alematu, 2014). Though empirical evidence exists on the topic, yet there is an uncertainty in determining the optimum level of WCM, especially in Sri Lankan context. Since WCM may be different from industry to industry, firms have to adopt an appropriate WCM approach which is favorable to particular industrial sector. Hence this study compare the relationship between WCM and the firm’s performance of eighteen manufacturing firms and eighteen food & beverage firms listed in the CSE. Data were gathered from annual reports of the sampled firms for the period 2011-2015. The WCM measured in terms of Inventory Turn-over Days (ITD), Average Receivable Days (ARD), Average Payable Days (APD), Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) and Sales Growth Rate (SGR) whereas performance was measured by the return on assets (ROA). According to the data analysis, there was a negative correlation between ROA and CCC, ITD, ARD. In addition to that, there was a positive correlation between APD and SGR with ROA. There was a significant relationship between WCM and firms’ performance in manufacturing and food & beverage sector. Keeping an optimal level of liquidity of the manufacturing and food & beverage sector and the value of the managers of companies in the manufacturing and food & beverage sector will have to increase the value of the firm thereby controlling the level of optimal working capital position.
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    Determinants of Firm Performance; With Special Reference to Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka
    (Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Senanayaka, S.M.D.J.; Karunarathne, W.V.A.D.
    Study was to discover the determinants, which affect to the profitability of Commercial banks in Sri Lanka. In the economy that the financial system is, important criteria and commercial banks are playing a key role under the financial system in the economy. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of the firms’ performance of commercial banks in Sri Lanka. There are many factors, which affects to the performance of commercial banks. In this study, it pays attention on the internal factors, which affects to commercial banks’ performance. The study has used Return on asset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) alternatively to identify the banks’ performance. Capital Adequacy, Financial Leverage, Number of Branch and Liquidity ratio were considered as independent variables of the study. Secondary data of eight (08) listed commercial banks over 10 years were selected to the sample of the study. Correlation and Regression analysis were performed to analyzed data of the study. Constructed two models were used as alternative models. According to first model, that Capital Adequacy ratio, Debt to Equity ratio, Number of branches and the Liquidity assets ratio significantly affected the Return on Assets (ROA). According to the second model, that Capital Adequacy ratio and the Liquidity Assets ratio were significantly affected on Return on Equity (ROE) and the Debt to Equity ratio and the Number of branches were not affected on ROE significantly.
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    The Relationship between Capital Structure and Performance; Evidence from Selected Sri Lankan Hotels Listed in Colombo Stock Exchange
    (Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dulaji, D.W.R.K.; Jayamaha, A.
    The performance of hotel industry is most important to the wealthy of the Sri Lankan economy. Hotels compete in a global economy with infinite opportunities. Hence, hotels need more financial strength in order to run the day to day operations of the business. Capital Structure is one of the main criteria which concerned in financial strength of the hotels. The capital structure of listed companies is most important dimension that every stakeholder is very much concerned. The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between capital structure and performance in the listed hotels in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, this study also aims to indicate what is the most influential factor for capital structure? Short term debt, Long term debt and debt to equity ratio are used as measurement of capital structure. Performance of hotel was dependent variable and it measured by ROA. The study has been used panel data procedure for a sample of 26Sri Lankan hotels listed in Colombo Stock Exchange during 2010-2015.The data for all the variables in the study were abstracted from audited annual reportsThis quantitative analysis used descriptive statistic, regression analysis and correlation analysis to demonstrate relationship between capital structure and performance. This study found that a significant positive relationship between capital structure and performance of hotels listed in CSE. Based on findings, it can be arrived to an overall conclusion that an appropriate mix of capital structure improves the performance of hotels.
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    Factors Affecting on Employee Engagement of Blue Collar Jobs in Apparel Industry
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Galappaththi, S.S.; Jayatilake, L.V.K.
    In the global business environment, employee engagement and retention issues are emerging as the most critical challenges on workforce management and these will lead to performance of industries as well growth of the economy of country. Less intention/ less engagement for domestic industrial jobs which categorized as blue collar jobs are downsizing the economy with creating big issues for industrialists. Purpose of this study was to assess the factors affecting to Employee Engagement for the Blue Collar Jobs in Sri Lankan apparel industry. In order to develop the key objective, there are sub objectives supported to develop the research such as to identify the existing level of employee engagement (Blue color jobs) in apparel industry in Sri Lanka. There are 200 sample subjects participated to the research, and provide their contribution to the research. The research study is considered as four independent variables such as commitment, job satisfaction, motivation and the training and development and the depend variable in employee engagement and these variables will be involved with the analytical study. Today the Global Apparel Industry is facing many challenges than ever. Performance of employees (Blue Collar jobs) is significantly affected with the apparel industry in Sri Lanka, in this regard; employee engagement is the major aspect of the apparel industry.
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    Factors Associated with the Performance of Engineers within Software Development Companies in Sri Lanka
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Doole, F.R.; Abeygunawardana, R.A.B.
    The performance of organizations enables the growth of the company value and its survivability. However Organizational performance within the IT Industry is being mostly impacted by the human resources. As there are different types of employees, their dedication, effort and efficiency differ from each other. Summation of individual employee’s performance will result into the organizational performance. Therefore there might be significant association between organizational factors, individual skills and performance; however, this relationship was not examined in the Sri Lankan context in previous studies. To fill the said research gap this study was carried using the IT product development companies in Sri Lanka. The main objective of this research was to identify the factors which are associated with employee performance. This research was quantitative and used two main types of data collection methods: interviews and a questionnaire. The results of the analysis indicated that Organizational, Personal and Individual skill factors are associated with the engineer performance of software development companies. It can be concluded that the created conceptual framework was confirmed by the analysis which was carried out.