Browsing by Author "Anjala, A.K."

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    Conflict Handling through Grievance Handling: An Evidence from Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019-02) Dissanayake, D.W.R.A.A.B; Anjala, A.K.
    This study is intended to identify the impact of grievance handling on conflict management in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka in order to address the question of “Does the grievance handling procedure impact on handling conflicts among employees in Apparel industry in Sri Lanka?” as one of the most significant innovations in industrial revolution. Accordingly, the study collected data from 120 employees in selected apparel companies in Kurunegala District by using stratified random sampling method. A structured questionnaire was used for the data collection where the first part of the questionnaire was devoted to collect the demographic information and the second part was dedicated to measure the dependent and independent variables using 5 points Likerttype scale. Descriptive Statistics, AVOVA, Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data using SPSS 20.0 version. The Correlation Analysis between the dependent variable and independent variables were significant at 0.05 level of significance which indicate that the grievance handling procedure positively influences the conflict handling in the apparel context. According to the Multiple Regression analysis, the adjusted R square value was 0.404 where informal grievance capturing system and timeliness of the grievance handling were identified as significant at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings it can be concluded that an effective grievance handling procedure is essential for the apparel industry to address the conflict arise among the employees in order to maintain sound industrial relations. There, the organizations should pay a special attention to capture the grievances in informal ways and captured grievances should be addressed in timely manner. The findings of this research can be imply to the apparel industry to form effective grievance capturing and handling system policies and strategies to maintain the healthy atmosphere in the organizational context.
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    Does Work Environment Matter for Employees’ Productivity in the Public Sector in Sri Lanka?
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019-02) Priyadarshani, T.A.I.; Anjala, A.K.
    The human resource productivity has been identified as a significant national concern because of the inefficiently executed and loss-making state departments and enterprises in the current context of the public sector in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, this study is intended to investigate the impact of work environment on the productivity of Management Assistant employees of Divisional Secretariats by selecting the Anuradhapura District as the study setting. As a quantitative study complemented by explanatory research design the study collected data from 80 Management Assistant employees in Divisional Secretariat Offices in Anuradhapura district by using Stratified Sampling employing a self-completion questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted with two parts and first part was devoted to collect the demographic information of respondents while the second part was devoted to assess the work environment and the productivity of employees using five point Likert scale. The data analysis was performed by using Descriptive Statistics, ANOVA, Correlation and Regression Analysis by using SPSS 21.0 version. As per the findings all the predictors of the model (Physical Environment, Psychological Environment, and Social Environment) explained 20.7 % variation of employee productivity where psychological work environment and social work environment show significant impact on employees’ productivity. Thus, it is recommended that employees’ productivity can be increased by asserting high consideration on both psychological work environment variables as salary, health and safety, job security and social work environment as communication, performance feed- back, supervisory support, decision making, workplace culture and co-workers in the Divisional Secretariat Offices in Sri Lanka. The implications of the study is important to enhance the productivity of the human resource by placing more concern on both psychological and social work environment variables.
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    Knowledge Management through E-HRM: A Review
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019-02) Anjala, A.K.
    The organizations in the 21st century is facilitated with effective achievement of organizational objectives with the technology in smoothing the Human Resource Management (HRM) function in the form of introduction of electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM) to the management sphere. Thus, this review aimed at to articulate and synthesis the theoretical knowledge related to electronic human resource management (e-HRM) by devoting content to specific areas as explanations of e-HRM as a concept, the theoretic groundwork e-HRM, the role of e-HRM, the various categories of e-HRM, factors affecting to e HRM and necessary conditions for an effective e-HRM implementation along with a strong empirical justification of e-HRM on knowledge management by using the qualitative content analysis as the methodological basement. In achieving this purpose, about fifty sources of literature were investigated including books, both published and unpublished journal articles, conference papers and posters. The findings reveals that there is a positive relationship between Knowledge Management and e – HRM that will lead to strengthen the organizational innovations through knowledge sharing, retention and accessing the organizational knowledge by achieving organizational objectives effectively. Nevertheless, there is a deficiency in the researches which is directed towards this area and need more focus on identifying the influence of eHRM on knowledge management to a deeper extent.