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{"title":"The Impact of Economic Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, Urbanization and Trade Openness on CO2 Emissions in Sri Lanka","authors":"R. Mayoshi","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V12I1.7523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V12I1.7523","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change in Sri Lanka is a big issue in recent years and CO2 emission is continuously rising in Sri Lanka. The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of economic growth, foreign direct investment, urbanization and trade openness on CO2 emissions in Sri Lanka during the period 1978-2019. To accomplish the objective, applied Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to determine the long-run and short-run effects. CO2 emission is used as the dependent variable. Foreign direct investment, per capita GDP, trade openness and urbanization variables, which act as the independent variables in the model. The results indicate that GDP per capita, urbanization and trade openness could lead to increased environmental emissions in the long-run. However, GDP per capita could lead to decreased environmental emissions in the short-run. In order to prevent the increase of CO2 emissions caused by economic growth, urbanization and trade openness, the level of CO2 emissions should be considered when making policies to improve economic growth, and urbanization. Moreover, the government should design the trade reforms and policies to be accompanied by strong environmental policies in the long-run.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133786382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Income Disparity among Urban and Rural Community in Sri Lanka","authors":"R. R. H. Chandrasiri, A. Shantha","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V12I1.7517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V12I1.7517","url":null,"abstract":"Income disparity is considered as a global problem, with significant manifestations in the Sri Lankan context. This research investigates the income disparities between urban and rural populations in Sri Lanka. The objective is to investigate the degree of income inequality within and between sectors. The survey included 166 households. Since the study compared urban and rural communities, the same sample size was taken from both sectors. The study was carried out using multiple linear regression, with the Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve used to determine the degree of inequalities. According to the study's findings, the composite assessment of income disparities across sectors accounted for 0.25 Gini coefficient. According to the study, rural families' breadwinners should be financially supported. In order to reduce the degree of inequality, the government should take steps to improve rural infrastructure, schooling, and health care at a pace comparable to that of the urban sector.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129445682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Affecting Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Intention: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Education, Previous Experience, and Personal Skills","authors":"K. L. N. K. Gunathunge","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7477","url":null,"abstract":"It is generally accepted that entrepreneurship can be taught and that learning leads to new venture creation. However, some argue that entrepreneurship cannot be taught. With this in mind, this study examined the relationship of entrepreneurial education, personal skills, and previous experience to examine which factor plays the most effective role in making an impact on the intention to become an entrepreneur. The study sample consisted of 218 management undergraduates from three leading universities in Sri Lanka and data were collected through the administration of a formal questionnaire. Generally, the overall results of the study indicate that the best way to make an impact on undergraduates is to guide them through practical entrepreneurial experience rather than focusing more on formal theoretical knowledge. Therefore, this study suggests academics, to integrate the more practical experience into the entrepreneurship course curriculums and this will reshape the future development of the entrepreneurial education field.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126742408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ICT Usage and Business Performance of SMEs in Sri Lanka: The Mediation Effect of Bounded Rationality","authors":"H. Priyanath, R. G. N. Megama","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7470","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined empirically how Information & Communication Technology (ICT) usage affects the bounded rationality and business performance of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lankan. Data were collected from 400 of SMEs employing structural questionnaire having the face to face interviews. The Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was utilized to analyze the data. The results discovered that ICT usage in the organization perfectly makes a significant positive impact on business performance as well as negatively influenced the bounded rationality. Simultaneously, the study uniquely found that bounded rationality makes a negative impact on business performance. Meanwhile, bounded rationality plays a dominant role in the relationship between ICT usage and business performance. The study strongly recommends SMEs to strengthen the usage of ICT especially, mobile technology with applications that play a leading role to develop the SMEs by enhancing the decision-making power.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124206531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Employee Intention to Stay in Colombo Based Information Technology Industry: An Investigation on the Impact of Employee Retention Factors","authors":"K. D. H. N. Binushika, T. K. Karandakatiya","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7476","url":null,"abstract":"Employee Retention is considered to be a major concern any industry where the employee turnover rate tends to be higher. When it comes to the Information Technology (IT) industry (where in Sri Lanka or at global level), there is a visible trend in the employee turnover when compared to the other industries. More specifically, the employee turnover of IT industry employ has been identified as a crucial issue in the Asian context including Sri Lanka. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of some selected employee retention factors on employees’ intention to stay within the IT companies of the Colombo Suburbs, Sri Lanka. A model was designed and the hypotheses were empirically tested from data collected through a survey. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were carried out to test the association and the degree of impact of the selected employee retention factors on Employees’ intention to stay. The analysis results indicated that all the three independent variables (Employee Career Progression, Organizational Culture, and Flexible Working Hours) are positively associated with the dependent variable. The findings of this research also indicate that, career progression and flexible working hours has a high degree of impact on employees’ intention to stay where the organizational culture has only a negligible impact on the employees’ intention to stay. The research results will have implications for any IT organization operating within the Colombo Suburbs. This research also opens up new opportunities for academicians in studying cross-linkages among the various key factors identified by the study.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114411840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Talent Management on Non-managerial Employees’ Retention in the Private Commercial Banking Sector of Sri Lanka","authors":"R. Ranatunga, W. Fernando, K. Kodisinghe","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7469","url":null,"abstract":"The functioning and long term survival of any organizations highly depends on several factors. Attracting and retaining the best talented employees is a key factor to ensure the accomplishment of organizational goals. Nowadays, most of organizations pay little attention on the retention of employees than attracting them. As a significant determinant for achieving organization’s goals, this study is to discuss the impact of Talent management on Non managerial employee retention in private commercial banking sector, Western province of Sri Lanka. According to the previous studies researchers proved that generally private sector employees enjoy more financial and non-financial benefits rather than state sector banking employees. But employee retention in private commercial banking sector lower than state banking sector. This reason was root factor to study the employee retention in private commercial banking sector. Further this study was focused on Non managerial employees in private commercial banks since they are the drivers of daily operations of banks. Further, their employee turnover is greater than Managerial level employees. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of Talent management on Non managerial employee retention. The study problem is to identify the impact of Talent management on Non managerial employee retention in private commercial banking sector of Western province in Sri Lanka. The data were collected by distributing a structured questionnaire from the convenient select sample of 375 of non-managerial employees in private commercial banks, Western province of Sri Lanka. The data were presented and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. The Pearson product movement correlation analysis and least square linear regression analysis analyzed the data over which the hypothesis were tested. The findings of the study indicated that Talent management function positively correlated with non-managerial employee retention in private commercial banks and based on study findings and previous literatures study concluded that Talent management is a significant factor that considerably effect on employee retention.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123985017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Training and Development on Employee Performance of Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka","authors":"D. D. Gammanpila, K. Kodisinghe","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7478","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of the study is to identify how training and development affects operational level employee performance in the context of the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. The researchers carefully chosen three leading apparel sector companies in Sri Lanka for this study. The reason for selecting this research topic is that it was identified that apparel companies were facing issues where employees make errors and delays and their performance has significantly reduced. It was identified that there are mistakes and delays from machine operators’ side which affects target achievement, thereby shipment delays to the end customer. Over the last year, there was an error rate of 5 percent which causes a massive waste of materials and fabric. Key performance indicator achievement fell by 10 percent which hit revenue adversely and this has led to customers delaying payments and moving on to competitors who are more punctual. This demonstrates the importance of training and development which will reduce errors, mistakes and delays. The independent variables considered were orientation training, coaching, job rotation, mentoring and continuous job training while the dependent variable was employee performance in the apparel industry. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data which was distributed to 210 respondents who were selected on convenience sampling. The findings denoted that there is a strong positive impact of all independent variables on the dependent variable.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133461004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer’s Green Product Buying Decision: Impact of Selected Factors","authors":"R. Rathnayaka, W. Wijethunga","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7472","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the concern on environmental issues have become more prominent in both global and local presence. Consequently, the consumers are also paying more attention on environmental products with the increase of environmental awareness. As there is an emerging market segment for green product of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector in Sri Lanka, marketers could attain the competitive advantage by targeting on this emerging market segment. Consumers have realized that their consumption activities may result in environmental deterioration, which, in turn, may transform and motivate them in making ecologically conscious purchases such as green buying. Consequently, businesses have begun to modify their behaviour in an attempt to address environmental and social issues as a way of their social responsibility and attract consumers towards green products and promote environmental sustainability. The present study was designed to explore how far environment consciousness, eco labeling and green advertising impact on consumer’s green product buying decision. Accordingly, 384 respondents of 20-59 age range were selected by convenience sampling method and a structured questionnaire with 23 questions is used to collect data. In this context, results revealed that, green product buying decision was significantly influenced by environment environmental consciousness, eco labels, and green advertising. In practice, marketers of the green products might focus on marketing in order to communicate and enhance the awareness on green product and consumer’s environmental concern which might tap the consumers’ mindset to prefer the green products. Further Implication of the study might be useful for policy makers to provide incentives to green products manufacturers who are truly green in their manufacturing processes.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131073179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Affecting Generation Y’s Consumer Conformity Behaviour in Social Networking Sites; with Special Reference to Retail Fashion Industry in Colombo District, Sri Lanka","authors":"K. Liyanage, W. Tennakoon","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7471","url":null,"abstract":"The development of social networking platforms on the internet tremendously impacts to the facilitation of global social interconnections. Consumers are influenced by a variety of social networks in which Facebook plays a major role. Considering the rising Gen Y’s Social Networking Sites (SNS) involvement, modern fashion brands consider Facebook as a business take-off tool. Thus, the objective of this study was to investigate factors influencing Gen Y consumer conformity behaviour in SNS in the context of the retail fashion industry in Sri Lanka. A deductive, cross-sectional research inquiry was carried out using five independent variables, which equipped a field survey of (N=214) respondents belonging to Gen Y from the Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Research instrument of 32 items used in which the responses were ranked based on a seven-point Likert scale. Findings carry practical implications in focusing on the influential factors on Gen Y consumer conformity behaviour in SNS in driving retail fashion industry.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127372719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Relationship Between Green Human Resource Management and Environmental Sustainability: A Case Based on State Commercial Bank in Matale District","authors":"R. M. Rushya, D. Dissanayake","doi":"10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/WJM.V11I2.7473","url":null,"abstract":"Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) has emerged from the participation of companies in environmental conservation activities and ecological balance maintenance. Today, this subject is considered as an evolving and timely topic in Sri Lankan enterprises. But the public banking industry in Sri Lanka is not used much Green HRM practices when considering with private banking industry. This paper aims to find out the relationship between Green HRM & Environmental Sustainability in Bank of Ceylon in Matale district. Furthermore, this study aims to identify the Green HRM functions which they follows. This study was conducted by using 40 managerial employees in fourteen Bank of Ceylon branches in Matale district. This research endowed with exploratory study design pattern and quantitative research approach. Data was collected by survey method. When considering the results, Environmental Sustainability has a positive relationship with Green Job design, Green Recruitment & Selection and Green Training & Development. But the Green Performance & Reward Management has a negative relationship with Environmental Sustainability.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"47 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120981382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}