Modern day business organizations that are operate in complex and demanding markets are often create stress among its employees. Some argue that a certain level of stress is vital for people to achieve greater heights. Others think they will perform much efficiently if they are allowed to work under minimal stress. However, organizations are designing their job roles to get that extra punch from the human resources; and those who capable of handling such complexities will be rewarded. As such, this study was carried out in the Northern region of Sri Lanka, with the primary objective of understanding the effect of stress of bank employees and its impact over performance. Secondly, this research is trying to identify the effect of stress relate to job, organizational and individual factors and their relationships over performance. Above objectives are achieved with the techniques; correlations and regression. Correlations and coefficient is carried out to determine the relationship between variables. To test the effect of stress over performance, a regression analysis is carried out. Further, revealed that the relationship between stress and performance is negative and concluded that the stress is impacting over the performance of the employees of bank industry.
Apparel industry in Sri Lanka has become major contributor to Sri Lanka's economic development. Due to supply of low cost creative labour and organizational friendly government policies, many international apparel brands and apparel firms are outsourcing their manufacturing functions to Asian countries. Of those, Sri Lanka is a leading country where most apparel sector giants are interested to invest in. Further, in Sri Lankan context apparel sector is highly competitive as quite a number of big giants such as MAS Holdings, Brandix Apparel Lanka Ltd, Hela Clothing (Pvt) Ltd are operating in the market. Due to this high competitiveness in the industry, greater struggle is visible to attract and retain key talent. However, retaining talent has become difficult due to the job tension associated with high competitiveness. In the current study, the researchers attempt to investigate in depth the impact of job tension on job satisfaction of the executive level employees of the Apparel Industry, with special reference to Anuradhapura District. The executive level employees in three leading garment manufacturing organizations in Sri Lanka were investigated through a sample of 100 employees. Simple random sampling method was used to select the representative sample. A self-administrated structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to test the research hypotheses. The study confirmed that job tension is significantly correlated with employee job satisfaction. The findings of the study also indicated that there is a strong negative relationship between job tension and job satisfaction of executive level employees. This study directly provides a major theoretical contribution filling the gaps of former studies which were done on apparel sector. The findings and the recommendations of the current research directly addresses lot of practical issues related to job tension and job satisfaction faced by the apparel firms.
Employer branding is relatively a new terminology for many companies in Sri Lanka, but it is becoming more important to today's businesses. The prime focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between employer branding and executive level employees' job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. Seventy executive level employees were systematically sampled for the study. Employer branding is measured by using three dimensions such as economic value, development value and social value. Data were gathered through standardized questionnaire method and for the purpose of hypothesis testing, correlation and simple regression analysis were used by the researchers. Data were analyzed through Impact of Employer Branding on Job Satisfaction: with Special Reference to Insurance Company 135 Statistical Package for Social Sciences 20.0 version software to find out the relationship between variables. The results of the study suggest that there is significant positive relationship between employer branding and executive level employees' job satisfaction in AIA Insurance Lanka PLC. It was therefore suggested that organization must be a great place to work in order to enable employees to feel satisfied and remain in the organization .
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