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{"title":"Impact of financial market development on economic growth: evidence from Sri Lanka","authors":"I. H. Piyumini Nadeeshanee Senadheera, R. P. Champa Rajapakse","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8634","url":null,"abstract":"The study focuses on the impact of financial market development (FMD) on economic growth in Sri Lanka. The study investigates positive association flows from finance to growth, called the “supply-leading hypothesis”, in different directions such as positive, negative, bidirectional and neutral. FMD impact is considered in both depth and efficiency aspects. Natural logarithms (Ln) form of all gross domestic production in real terms, total domestic credit, percentage of loans and advances to total deposits, inflation index, market capitalisation of listed domestic companies and money supply as liquidity indicator are concerned, first being the dependent variable, next two as depth indicators and last three explanatories as efficiency indicating variables. Changes in both private sector production volume Index and government expenditure are also included into the model as independent variables to represent the non-financial market impact. Secondary monthly time series data published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka from January 2008 to June 2019 of 138 observations are analysed using the E-views version 10. The ARDL model is applied. The study suggests a significant long-run impact of FMD on economic growth in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, inflation hinders the FMD. Up to the bearable limit, financial depth positively affects, while the higher degree of financial depth negatively influences economic growth in Sri Lanka. The impact of the non-financial market is comparatively insignificant on economic growth.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873032","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":"Five years of RTI regime in Sri Lanka: factors causing low proactive disclosure of information and possible remedies","authors":"M. Sumanadasa","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8523","url":null,"abstract":"Statutory obligations are imposed upon ministers by sections 8 and 9 of the Right to Information Act (RTI Act)1, while Regulation No. 202 issues guidelines for public authorities on the proactive disclosure of information through a digital or electronic format. However, slow progress in implementing proactive disclosure measures and the resultant absence of vital information on digital platforms in a constantly updated and user-friendly manner is not only a failure of the public authority to comply with legal obligations to disclose information proactively but also causing a further delay in realising full benefits of the RTI Act by the citizen. This paper examines the present status of the proactive disclosure of information by public authorities in terms of the RTI Act and analyses factors that cause the low performance. Secondary data, particularly results of two studies in 2017 and 2020 undertaken by Verité Research and the Right to Information Commission (RTIC), respectively, have been analysed using descriptive methods. The study found that a key factor causing the low proactive online disclosure is the absence of practices of modern record management and the near absence of proper identification of ‘records’ or ‘information’ generated by public authorities by indexing and cataloguing and by maintaining regularly updated schedules of records. The second key factor found is the absence of a schedule of proactively disclosable records that is maintained constantly updated for monitoring such records. The lack of awareness and a clear knowledge of concepts on the part of state officials are also found as critical issues. The study recommends that all public authorities maintain (a) a general records schedule [common to all agencies]; and (b) an agency records schedule [unique to the agency], preferably in electronic format, and update the same on a daily basis. It is also recommended that a public authority maintains a schedule of proactively disclosable records called a “Proactive Disclosure Matrix”, preferably in electronic format and updates the same on a daily basis.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873033","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":"Strategic human resource management challenges in graduate development officer recruitment in Sri Lanka","authors":"Vivek Ramakrishnan, Yogarajah Nanthagopan","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8649","url":null,"abstract":"Human resource management greatly influences the long-term performance of a corporation. While this has always been the case, the relative importance of HR has further increased in today’s fast-changing, highly complicated, and uncertain corporate environment. Sri Lanka encounters a severe issue with hiring in the public sector, and employing graduate development officers has recently become increasingly complicated. They are categorised as insecure in their position due to the effect of human resource strategies in companies. In this regard, exploring the strategic human resource difficulties that influence the nominations of recent development officers is necessary, which mainly impacts graduates entering the business world for the first time. Within this context, a qualitative study was performed using data gathered through ten interviews. By using thematic analysis, the author aimed to determine the impact of strategic human resource practices in development officer appointments. Thus, we suggest the best possible ways of solving issues related to development officer appointments through practical strategies in human resources, such as the internal hiring process, knowledge or skill exams, and one-to-one and panel interviews.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873977","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":"Gendered state: ‘Governmentality’ and the labour migration policy of Sri Lanka","authors":"Jayathry Gunaratne","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8692","url":null,"abstract":"Governments’ use of their authority to control the behaviour of the citizens through ‘mechanisms of management’ such as education, laws, rules, and regulations is discussed widely in Michael Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’. Built on this standing, this paper intends to investigate how the government of Sri Lanka uses different policy initiatives over time to control the behaviour of a categorized group of its citizens i.e., unskilled female migrant workers. The research analyses the labour migration policies implemented by successive governments of Sri Lanka since late 1970s to post COVID-19 period to examine this statement. It argues that the government re-produces traditional gender norms through laws and regulations to regulate the movements of unskilled female migrant workers aiming to achieve its policy interests. The paper also discusses how the most recent labour migration policy controls women’s right to migration by interpreting the aspects of ‘Family Background Report’. This study adopts a combined method; while reviewing secondary data i.e., laws, regulations, and existing literature on related areas be the main source of data for the study, findings will be complemented by empirical data collected through structured interviews with government officials. This research concludes by revealing how the government of Sri Lanka has utilized its ‘mechanisms of management’ to control the right to work of a selected segment of females by applying its authority. It further explains how these laws and regulations have been changed over time to cater the policy interests of the succeeding governments.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873031","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":"Spiritual thirdspace and silent faith: reading the parallax between Buddhism and Christianity in the movie <em>Silence</em> (2016)","authors":"Mahesh Hapugoda, Krishanthi Anandawansa","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.7881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.7881","url":null,"abstract":"Scorsese’s movie Silence (2016) can be (re)contextualized to state that Jesuit priests Ferreira and Rodrigues found spiritual ‘Thirdspace’ when their missionary work was violently suppressed during Edo Japan. To survive the banal violence, suffering and pain and counter the psychological breakdown incurred by the Buddhist inquisitor, the priests seek an alternative, spiritual assimilation and dissimilation entity that paradoxically juxtaposes with the denouncement of faith (fumi-e) and identifies with God’s silence that preserves it. At this point, a Heideggerian ‘out-of-joint’ situation is experienced, reaching Christianity’s true meaning: God-forsaken man is left to decide in existential freewill how to continue his faith under challenging circumstances. The ‘Thirdspace’ identified here differs from Catholic and Christian beliefs, practices and Buddhist doctrinal rituals and occurs when Rodrigues silently preserves his faith, like his mentor Ferreira. This silent faith becomes the indestructibly true, epistemological element. There is higher semiotic significance when Rodrigues’ suppressed Christian soul symbolically returns through his wife, who places the Cross in his hands, establishing a transcendental connection that traverses both religions’ limits and boundaries. Despite the two religions’ ‘un-meeting’ spiritual contradictions, the wife’s act suggests man’s ability to help each other towards mutual, spiritual destinies. When Europe sees Christianity as a missionary endeavour, and its experience of Japanese cruelty culminates, a ‘shift in perspective against its background’ occurs that never returns gaze; the priests never look back at European origin after their ‘roots were cut’. This transposition of locations that prevents a returning gaze is the parallax that re-establishes true Christian faith in both priests.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873973","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":"Common methods and outcomes of employee engagement: a systematic literature review towards identifying gaps in research","authors":"Gayan Priyashantha, A.Chamaru De Alwis, I. Welmilla","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8613","url":null,"abstract":"As global surveys reported, employee engagement is currently in crisis. Hence, this study aimed to discover (1) common methods and outcomes of employee engagement and (2) researchgaps relating to employee engagement. The study employed the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methodology. Publications selected for this review were based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, as it is recommended for SLRs. The review included two 260 studies published in Scopus from 2008 to 2021. The studies were analysed through bibliometric analysis for reviewing purposes and achieving the two objectives. Findings indicate different methods and outcomes of employee engagement.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873975","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":"Listening to the information needs of visually impaired users and implications for the libraries","authors":"K. Vijayakumar, ABDUL WAHID, MOHAMMAD ISHAQ LONE, Bilal Gani Bhat","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8709","url":null,"abstract":"The study is pursued with the purpose of understanding the information-seeking behaviour of visually impaired users in Kashmir division of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Union Territory (UT). The main objectives of the study were to know the use of the library and the perception of library among visually impaired users. The data was collected through a schedule and was analysed using quantitative techniques. In total, 63 persons were identified as visually impaired, but only 58 responded to the schedule. In order to fulfil various information needs, the users are enquired about different sources consulted. The users have found many print and electronic sources in the libraries but, at the same time, suggested that there should be a facility for conversion of text from print to electronic format in the library. Furthermore, the users are using the various library services but the availability of few special facilities are not being reported by the users. Although, 74.1% of users are able to work with compurters, 70.7% suggested that more awareness programmes should be conducted by the libraries. Since this special group of users is often forgotten, it is important to know what they use and what they need.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873978","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":"Why a proactive research culture is necessary for advancing social sciences in Sri Lanka?","authors":"Kalinga Tudor Silva","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8904","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial points to the need for developing a positive research culture for advancing social science research in Sri Lanka. This is not to say that a positive attitude towards research is absent among social scientists and the scientific community in general in Sri Lanka. On the contrary, there is an emerging recognition that social science inputs are necessary for tackling the various challenging problems facing the country today. However, what is lacking is a firm faith in building a local social science knowledge base for exploring various approaches for understanding critical issues facing the country, constant debates about relevant issues and a critical engagement with the social, economic, and political environment in which we find ourselves. This is what I call a “proactive research culture” where we constantly turn to new research for generating new knowledge and finding answers to serious problems affecting the current and future generations.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873030","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":"Electronic human resource management (e-HRM) adoption; a systematic literature review","authors":"Gayan Priyashantha, A.H. Isuru Chandradasa","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v46i1.8573","url":null,"abstract":"e-HRM is a web-based technology that directly contributes to organisational effectiveness and supports different organisational functions. Even though the researchers have investigated different aspects of e-HRM adoption and reviews of them available, there are gaps in the current knowledge relating to the subject. Thus, the main objectives of this study were to assess (1) the current knowledge and (2) the areas where empirical research is lacking in e-HRM adoption. The systematic literature review methodology was followed to address these objectives. Twenty articles published from 2010 to 2021 were included in the review from Scopus. The article selection criteria, materials and methods, analysis, and findings’ reporting structure were followed based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The findings categorised e-HRM research into six main themes. They are (1) factors and outcomes of e-HRM adoption/usage, (2) e-HRM value creation, (3) strengthening the employee-HR department relationship, (4) the dark side of e-HRM, (5) virtual organisations and organisational innovations, and (6) the motivation for strategic business value creation. These themes represent two research areas: the factors and outcomes of e-HRM adoptions. Gaps in e-HRM research continue to exist in the empirical research environment. Accordingly, our findings have implications for improving e-HRM application and future research.","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873974","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":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences List of Referees - Volume 45 (2022)","authors":"The Editor","doi":"10.4038/sljss.v45i2.8753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v45i2.8753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53779,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136221973","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}