The purpose of the study was to investigate the levels of Perceived Academic Stress (PAS) among undergraduate students in Sri Lanka. Systematic random sampling was used to select 497 undergraduate students from the universities to participate in the study. Data on PAS were collected with the aid of the Perceived Academic Stress Scale (PASS) which was adapted from Cohen (1994) and revalidated for the study. Data were collected through previously validated questionnaire and were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The PAS levels of the respondents were compared on the basis of gender and level of study. The hypotheses formulated for the study were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that undergraduate students reported higher academic stress levels and negatively related with the Academic Performance (AP). It is important that students should be counseling and trained to manage stress effectively otherwise it can adversely influence their AP.
This study aimed to examine university undergraduate's level of Smartphone Addiction (SA) and to investigate the impact of SA on their Academic Performance (AP) with the mediating effect of Technology-Driven Multitasking behaviour (TDMT). The study employed a crosssectional survey design, with data gathered from 315 university students. The scope is limited to management undergraduates in Sri Lanka. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used while regression analysis was applied to test hypotheses. Further, the Sobel test is used to test the mediate effect in the relationship between Independent Variable (IV) and Dependent Variable (DV. The study put forth that university students were highly addicted to the use of smartphones. SA negatively impacts AP while TDMT also negatively impacts DV. Further, TDMT mediates the relationship between IV and DV. This study suggests that the students should reduce the intense use of smartphones for smoothly doing their academic activities.
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship of Marketing Orientation on Organizational Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Puttalam District. On one hand, the study identifies the components of market orientation related with Business performance and on the other hand the significant association between Market Orientation and SMEs' Business Performance. The study focused on three (3) dimensions related to market orientation and one dimension related to business performance. The selected sample for the study contained 110 owners from 110 SMEs in Puttalam district using convenient sampling method. The level of measuring variables was interval and the relevant statistical techniques for these measures were correlation and regression analyses. Data analysis was conducted by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Four hypotheses were tested to assess the empirical relationships among variables. Looking at the overall association among the variables it was observed that there is a high positive correlation between the market orientation and business performance (r = 0.931). Subsequently, factors such as customer orientation, competitor orientation and inter-functional coordination were found to be significantly impact on business performance of SMEs. Finally, these findings may lead to making some recommendations to improve the current level of market orientation factors of owners in SMEs which might lead to an increase in their business performance. Therefore, this study attempts to bring a validated framework to inform a suitable market orientation factors for the SMEs.
The Great Resignation, or the Big Quit, shook the world of work, leaving it questionable whether organizations could find and retain the necessary talents. Nevertheless, the shrinking Transition to Entrepreneurship (TE) demonstrated that developing countries were less affected by this massive attrition wave. However, in the context of developing countries, the causes of thinner TE remain unknown. The current study investigated the perceived barriers to TE in the Sri Lankan context. The present study followed a quantitative approach to test the extent to which demographic, environmental, motivational, human capital, and behavioral factors are perceived as barriers to TE intention. Participants in the field survey provided the data based on a psychometric measure with a seven-point response scale. Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) analyzed the data. According to the findings, employees in Sri Lankan context are more likely to avoid transitioning from their current employment to entrepreneurship because they perceive behavioral, human capital, and demographic factors as barriers to TE. However, the prospective entrepreneurs in the Sri Lanka did not perceive motivational and environmental factors as significant barriers to TE. The implications suggest modeling TE by incorporating the identified roadblocks to TE to predict entrepreneurial penetration in developing countries.
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