International Research Conference of UWU-2019

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    Family Responsibilities and Career Progression of Women in Private Business Organizations in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Dharmawansha, K.K.U.H.; Sutha, J.
    At present, organizations believe that women also equally strong enough in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes to males in performing tasks, duties and responsibilities. As every other employee in the workplace female employees also wish to develop their career due to many reasons. As every other employee in the workplace female employees also wish to develop their career due to many reasons. Literature proves that sue to selfinterest, status in the society as well as to acquire high monetary benefits and rewards, women are also like to develop their career. As there are many women in the private sector, to move upward in the career ladder while balancing the family responsibilities and work responsibilities has become a very difficult task due to many reasons. Therefore, in this research study, researcher trying to identify the nature of family responsibilities women in private business organizations have and how it influenced on her career progression. For the study, 30 women in top ten private business organizations were drawn from a population of employees in the private sector in Sri Lanka. Semi structured interviews were used to gather relevant data from the participants. Thematic analysis was used to analysis the data using Microsoft excel 2010. According to the research findings, it can be concluded that women in private business organizations have moderate level of awareness about the career, career progression satisfaction and career progression motivation. Also, through this study it has found out that childcare responsibilities, elder care responsibilities and domestic chore responsibilities of women in private business organizations in Sri Lanka have a negative impact on career progression while spousal support is positively affected to the career progression of the women in private business organizations in Sri Lanka.
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    Investigation of the Marketing Structure of the Flower Market: Case Study of the Flower Based Market under Religious Purpose in the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Gunarathne, G.S.P.
    There are various kind of trades and businesses around the archaeological and religious places, especially the flower-based marketing become a widespread business type. The aim of this study is to find the marketing structure & behaviour of the flower market under religious purpose in Anuradhapura sacred city. Primary data were collected by field observation by surveying 60 of flower businesspersons in the Anuradhapura sacred city of the northcentral province of Sri Lanka & descriptive statistical method was used to analyze the data. There are a number of flower shops, more customers & better business environment around Sri Maha Bodhi and Ruwanweliseya than other sacred places in the Anuradhapura sacred city. There is a huge gap between profit levels; profits are higher in Buddhist festival days due to the higher arrival of pilgrims than other usual days. Entering the flower market is not much easy because most of the florists enter to market by inheritance and by the support of relations who have already been doing flower business. In addition, there are some regulations to enter the market; the municipal council of Anuradhapura has limited flower business stalls in the sacred city. Florists can influence the price as they decide the price due to the consensus of all florist who runs flower business in the sacred city. Hence, the price is always equal in any flower shop in the sacred city at any given time. They change the price of flowers in different seasons; the decided price of a flower is higher in Buddhist festival seasons rather than off-season. Few wholesale suppliers supply flowers to the businesspersons. The main reason to limit the suppliers in the market is the lack of sources because the available sources are leased by few flower suppliers. Thus, based on the existing evidence of the behaviour, the marketing structure of the flower-based market under religious purpose in the sacred city of Anuradhapura characterizes an oligopolistic market.