Browsing by Author "Perera, K.J.T"

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    Impact of Effective Succession Planning Practices on Employee’s Retention (With Special Reference to Private Business Organizations in Sri Lanka)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019-02) Poornima, W.A.D.N; Sutha, J.; Perera, K.J.T
    In recent times, business organizations have recognized effective succession planning concept as one of the key aspects of managing employee’s retention. Although, as a result of employee’s unawareness most of the organizations do not intend to implement succession practices. This research explores the impact of effective succession planning practices on employee’s retention with special reference to private business organizations in Sri Lanka. The researcher conducted a field survey and collected data across 100 middle-level managers in top ten private organizations according to the LMD report 2017. A standard questionnaire was used as a data collecting technique and convenience sampling method was used to select the sample. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation, simple regression, and multiple regression analysis with the support of SPSS 21version. The results show that employees almost agree with the existing effective succession planning practices used in each particular organization. Performance Goal Orientation was strong positively correlating with effective succession planning practices and employees retention. Research proved that there is a positive impact from effective succession planning practices to the employee’s retention. Management Involvement and Diversity Management are the highest and lowest contributory dimensions on employee retention respectively. Results revealed that performance goal orientation Moderator does not stronger the relationship among effective succession planning practices and employee retention. Effective succession planning practices mostly affect for the employee retention and research suggested managers to select the most appropriate succession practices in business context. The results provide various implications for filling the knowledge and empirical gap within the research context. Finally, it will also contribute to the top level managers and as well as future researchers in the same research area.
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    The Impact of Psychological Wellbeing on Entrepreneurial Engagement: Special Reference to Military Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2020) Eranjali, G.M.M.; Fasana, S. F.; Perera, K.J.T
    Entrepreneurial engagement through the entrepreneurial process involves individual entrepreneurial growth by the development of psychological wellbeing. Military entrepreneurs are a niche segment that had the rarest concern but yielding a higher contribution to society. Their involvement in crimes as they become deserters and lack of welfare measures during the post-war period are the major factors that have caused underworld development. Given the fact of a lack of empirical evidence, the research was conducted regarding the impact of psychological wellbeing on entrepreneurial engagement by military entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka. The mixed-method was followed to determine the supportive nature of qualitative findings to quantitative findings. The stratified sampling method and snowball sampling method were employed to highlight the specific subgroup of 206 and 22 military entrepreneurs respectively. Data was gathered by using self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Apart from the descriptive data, Structural Equation Modeling, correlation, and thematic analysis were performed to analyze the data. Psychological wellbeing was measured using the Ryff’s six-factor model and entrepreneurial engagement was measured using the entrepreneurial process of identification, evaluation, and exploitation. The analysis revealed that autonomy had the least impact on military entrepreneurs while the other dimensions had a moderate impact. Alongside this, it was found that there was a significant positive relationship between psychological wellbeing and entrepreneurial engagement. Moreover, the study found that there were barriers and supporting factors for the engagement in entrepreneurial activities, and further recommended that government support and counseling is essential for the development of Psychological wellbeing and Entrepreneurial Engagement. Keywords: Psychological wellbeing, Entrepreneurial engagement, Military entrepreneurs, Planned behavior