Best Undergraduate Thesis of the Department with respect to the academic year. http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/1778 2026-04-20T03:27:15Z 2026-04-20T03:27:15Z Madhuwantha, Dubutu Arachchige Shiran http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/1802 2022-02-22T08:54:44Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Study on the Factors Impact on Women Consumers Intention to use Motobike Based Ridesharing Services in Colombo Districts Sri Lanka Madhuwantha, Dubutu Arachchige Shiran Today, ride-sharing intention has received great attention among the scholars in both international and local context. In the present study, the researcher attempts to find the factors of motorbike based ride-sharing intention in the Colombo district, Sri Lanka. The preliminary study of the current context has proved that the lowest level of motorbike based ride-sharing intention among the women consumers who are in the age category of 18-39 in Colombo district, Sri Lanka. Therefore, the researcher decided to identify the factors which impact for the less intention to motorbike-based ride sharing among women consumers who are in the age category of 18-39 in the present context. Then, the researcher developed six research objectives based on the technology acceptance model. This model is extended by the researcher by referring to the previous studies and this model is tested with the support of the survey questionnaire. The data are collected from 264 respondents and mainly reliability analysis, correlation and, regression analysis were used as analytical tools to analyze the collected data. Results indicated that motorbike based ride-sharing intention of the women consumers who are in the age category of 18- 39 is positively impacted by perceived usefulness, and subjective norms while negatively impacted by perceived risk. The results also showed that personal innovativeness, Environmental awareness, and perceived ease of use have no impact on the motorbike based ridesharing intention of the selected respondents. Based on these results, the researcher recommends the companies which provide ride-sharing services like Uber, PickMe and, SLT muve to take appropriate strategies to improve the customers‟ perception of safety level on the ride-sharing services. Also, the researcher suggests future researchers to find more factors that impact to the motorbike based ride-sharing intention of the consumers in other districts, Sri Lanka.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Kulathissa, Karandana Weerasinghage Prasadi Nawodika Kulathissa http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/1801 2022-02-22T08:44:28Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Impact of Passion on Epistemic Curiosity of Science and Technology Scientists in Sri Lanka Kulathissa, Karandana Weerasinghage Prasadi Nawodika Kulathissa Innovations, inventions, new findings are crucial factors to developing the country and Epistemic Curiosity is one of the influential psychological factors to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning and which is heavily associated with all aspects of human development. Within the Sri Lankan context, a low level of Epistemic Curiosity of S&T Scientists identified as a researchable area after analyzing the preliminary data and it was identified as two types of Passion namely, Harmonious and Obsessive Passion impact on Epistemic curiosity based on the current literature. The foremost objectives of the study are finding out the Positive impact of Harmonious Passion on Epistemic Curiosity of S&T Scientists in Sri Lanka and the negative impact of Obsessive Passion on Epistemic Curiosity S&T Scientists. Data were collected from the only survey by using self adminstarted questionnaires developed using a google form. Out of 339 S&T scientists, 158 S&T Scientists were selected as the sample by applying the stratified random sampling technique. This study belongs to Quantitative research methodology while multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypothesized model. The findings of the study revealed that only Obsessive Passion negatively impact on Epistemic Curiosity of S&T Scientists in Sri Lanka. However, Harmonious Passion not impacted on Epistemic Curiosity S&T Scientists in Sri Lanka. Science & Technology Scientists are really hard workers when running the project, hence, Government is able to facilitate a reasonable vacation after ending their project. As a result, Fresh workers think differently and it will lead to a decrease in Obsessive passion as increasing the Epistemic Curiosity towards finding something new and eliminating gaps in ones understanding. Plenty of Epistemic Curiosity researchers quantitatively measure this dimension. Although, it would be worth the qualitative study to deeply understanding the dimension of Epistemic Curiosity

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandaruwan, Vithanage Don Kushan http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/1800 2022-02-22T08:39:38Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harassment Among Female Employees in Sri Lankan Apparel Industry Sandaruwan, Vithanage Don Kushan Workplace harassment is the threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. Workplace harassment has become a popular topic among professionals and researchers. Workplace harassment mainly consists of physical, verbal, psychological, and sexual harassment. But the rise of harassment among female apparel employees can be seen as a serious and sensitive topic that is not talked about much nowadays. The purpose of this study is to find out the reasons for the harassment among female employees in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the research design of this research was semi-structured interviewed, which collects quality data and conducts it using a qualitative research methodology. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with female apparel employees selected from the snowballing technique to gain an in-depth understanding of the causes of harassment among female employees in Sri Lankan apparel industry. After coding the results of the study, the researcher found 17 reasons for the harassment as interference from a third party, doing the job well, neglect (non-surrender), related to clothes, jealousy, family problems, receiving promotions, misunderstand, pressure from higher levels, disbelief, arrogance, romantic relationships, to create distrust, surpassing the other's, incompetency, education, and long service period. According to the research findings are important in controlling the turnover, the reduction of absenteeism and workplace conflicts, and the increase in job satisfaction of female employees in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Under the basic guidelines of this research, the problems caused by the increase in harassment among female garment workers can be prevented. Organizing group activities that create a sense of unity and solidarity among female employees. These problems can be evaded by implementing economic and social empowerment programs for women workers and conducting counseling. This study will lead future researchers to conduct further studies on harassment based on gender. Based on this study, can be used as a guide to finding out the reasons for not reporting harassment incidents.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Jayani, Karunarathna Punchi Arachchige Umeasha http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/1799 2022-02-22T08:31:24Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

The study on the challenges and opportunities of job-hopping of executives for Information Technology enterprises in Sri Lanka Jayani, Karunarathna Punchi Arachchige Umeasha The purpose of this study was to find out whether job hopping is a challenge or an opportunity for Information Technology enterprises in Sri Lanka. Here, the researcher has been done an exploratory study using 12 interviews with human resource executives and senior managers to get an in-depth idea about whether job-hopping is a challenge or an opportunity for Information Technology enterprises. The further researcher used thematic analysis and qualitative analysis for this study because this study explores the perception of HR-related persons in Information Technology enterprises in Sri Lanka. According to the research objectives, the findings were five reasons for job-hopping become a challenge and five reasons for job-hopping become an opportunity. The challenges are, changing jobs to cope with the working environment, rare talented employees hop the jobs, cost of replacement for new employees, have to spend time to adapt new employees for the new environment and job hoppers request more benefits and packages. The opportunities are sufficient knowledge pool in the job market, infuse fresh blood to the organization, and managing the employment cost and there are mainly two conditions to job-hopping to be an opportunity. They are, if the organization has a succession plan for key positions, job-hopping is not a challenge and if employees retain in a particular organization for at least two years, it will not challenge the organization. Moreover, most of the interviews showed that job-hopping is an opportunity for Information Technology enterprises in Sri Lanka. These findings are significant to human resource managers of the Information Technology field to make their future strategies, and this will help entrepreneurs, job hoppers, and new researchers to get an understanding about the job-hopping in the Information Technology enterprises in Sri Lanka

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