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    An Overview of Knowledge Management Orientation Literature and Future Directions
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Jayampathi, E. K.; De Alwis, A. C.; Razi, M. J. M
    Knowledge is a credible asset which has a distinctive capability to add extra value to an organization. Managing the organizational knowledge facilitates an organization to overlook its goals and objectives and enhance the overall performance. Knowledge management behavior of an organization is discussed under the concept of knowledge Management Orientation (KMO). The KMO facilitates to understand the internal focused behavior of organizations in absorbing, organizing, sharing, and being opened to new knowledge sources. As one of the most important strategic resources of an organization, there is a growing interest among the scholars and the practitioners about the KMO. Although, the interest on KMO is widely spread all over the world, yet, a little attention has been given to integrate the findings of former surveys and assess the prevailing status of the research in this field. This study aims to conduct a systematic review of KMO research, to identify the various kinds of definitions of KMO, measurements of KMO, areas conducted KMO studies, research gaps addressed in KMO research, limitations confronted by the former studies and the future focus on the KMO research. By following multiple filtering processes, it was identified 35 scholarly works on KMO which have been published during the period of 2015-2020. The study reveals that there is a high potential for future studies in KMO in association with numerous fields of studies. Future scholars and practitioners who wish to conduct their studies on KMO can use the findings of this study as a motive to initiate their research works.
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    Changing Gender Stereotypes: A Survey on Definitions and Dimensions
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Priyashantha, K. G.; De Alwis, A. C.; Welmilla, I.
    Changing gender stereotypes has been a hot topic among researchers on gender studies since the 1970s. Researchers have considered this concept and tested it in different studies with other variables in various contexts in the world. Anyone who is interested in studying the changing gender stereotypes may require the definitions given and dimensions used by the researchers in this area. Therefore, the main purpose of doing this study is to synthesize the definitions and dimensions on this area and which will make some implications for future researchers. To materialize the purpose of the study, a literature survey was conducted by considering research work published in the past 20 years using the archival method. For that, famous research databases were accessed. Survey results found a common definition for changing gender stereotypes which is believed to be applicable to any society in the world. When it comes to the dimensions used, researchers operationalized the concept using various dimensions where the most commonly used dimensions have been masculinity and femininity. Based on these two dimensions, researchers have used various aspects to cover these dimensions.
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    Use of Social Media in Professional Education: A Cross-Sectional Study among Teachers in India and Sri Lanka.
    (8th International Conference on Business & Information ICBI – 2017, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Kurian, S.; De Alwis, A. C.; Padmasiri, M. K. D.; Ramanathan, H. N.; Chacko, P. S.
    Teachers are sophisticated users of social media. Although the faculty personal use of social media has shown ever-increasing trend the professional use of social media has lagged somewhat behind. A majority of faculty now uses social media in a professional context (including all aspects of their profession outside of teaching). The number of teachers who use social media in the classroom still does not represent a majority. They refer to different sites to match their varying personal, professional, and teaching needs. In general, they see considerable potential in the application of social media and technology to their teaching, but not without a number of serious barriers. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions of acceptance of social media in teaching and learning activities and the barriers that inhibit the minds of the management faculty in the use of it. The results indicate a positive inclination among teachers towards the use of social media for teaching-learning purposes with each of the indicator variables, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions measuring higher than the benchmark. The dominant factor which emerged as a barrier to the usage of social media by the teachers was the lack of integration of social media with the learning management system.