DSpace Collection:http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/37272024-03-23T19:12:24Z2024-03-23T19:12:24ZCover pagehttp://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/37782021-10-18T19:30:04Z2018-10-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Cover page2018-10-01T00:00:00ZContentshttp://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/37772021-10-18T19:30:06Z2018-10-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Contents2018-10-01T00:00:00ZEngagement of organizational citizenship behavior: does gender make differences?Abdul Rauf, F. H.http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/37762021-10-18T19:30:55Z2018-10-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Engagement of organizational citizenship behavior: does gender make differences?
Authors: Abdul Rauf, F. H.
Abstract: Although number of scholars attempted to show the gender differences in many
organizationally relevant areas over the past decades, treatment and
expectations of female and male at their workplace are still observed as
differentiated. Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is the behavior that
employees engage in actions that are organizationally significant and not
prescribed in their formal job description. OCB has been related to number of
positive consequences at both individual and organizational level. Therefore,
scholars have paid their attention in studying this growing area. The amount of
engagement in OCB may vary based on the gender differences. The objective
of this study was to examine the gender differences in engagement of OCB. A
sample of 160 employees (N=180, 80 Males and 80 Females) was drawn from
public service sector in Sri Lanka. Validated questionnaire was used to collect
the data. Five dimensions of OCB namely conscientiousness, sportsmanship,
civic virtue, helping behavior, and courtesy have been used to test the
differences. The findings revealed significant gender differences on three
dimensions of OCB. While conscientiousness and helping behavior have shown
female on the higher side, sportsmanship has shown male on the higher side.
But, in terms of other dimensions civic virtue and courtesy the differences were
insignificant falling far away from the probability level of .05. However,
analysis on overall OCB shown negligible gender differences suggest that
males and females are both almost equal in engaging in OCB. Nevertheless, the
results supporting in case of the dimensions of helping behavior females are on
the higher side suggesting that female are generally more empathic or
sympathetic than male and therefore, they are more helpfulness, kindness, and
compassion than male. However, in case of dimension of sportsmanship male
are on the higher side suggesting that males are willing to tolerate
inconveniences without complaining petty grievances. This is consistent with
the previous findings that male possess certain characteristics such as happily
taking risk, stillness in a crisis situation, and the ability to work under pressure.
Findings of this study have number of implications and have shown new
avenues for future research.2018-10-01T00:00:00ZAchieving competitive advantage through humanware adoption: special reference with rice millers of Agri business sector in Sri LankaAthambawa, S.http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/37752021-10-18T19:30:47Z2018-10-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Achieving competitive advantage through humanware adoption: special reference with rice millers of Agri business sector in Sri Lanka
Authors: Athambawa, S.
Abstract: In Sri Lanka, an increasing number of rice production technologies and
management techniques have been introduced. Despite the introduction of the
rice production technologies, rice production has not reached a required level
of standard. This study therefore analysed the factors associated with adoption
of improved humanware components in rice production industry and the culture
of the organization in this regard. Random sampling technique was used in
selecting 173 rice producers from the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and 50
millers in the North Central Province (NCP) who possesses a well-developed
rice production facility in order to benchmark the performance of the millers in
Eastern Province. Data were collected with the aid of a structured
questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics with correlation and
regression analyses. The result shows that the organizational culture has a
positive relationship with technology adoption. Especially the dimensions of
organizational culture such as institutional behaviour, corporate culture and
organizational structure show moderate relations while degree of
innovativeness and changing attitudes were at negligible relations among
Eastern millers. It emphasizes that the rice millers have to improve their change
of attitudes and innovation to do a successful business. A higher level of
acceptance and relation was shown between all dimensions of the variable in
North Central province’s rice millers. This was proved that a high level of
practices in organizational culture helps to NCP millers to get competitive
advantage in the business. Organizational culture factors need to be taken into
consideration by the eastern millers when the changes are incorporated with
practices in technology perspectives.2018-10-01T00:00:00Z