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2018-10-01T00:00:00Z Abdul Rauf, F. H. http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3776 2021-10-18T19:30:55Z 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 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.

2018-10-01T00:00:00Z Athambawa, S. http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3775 2021-10-18T19:30:47Z 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 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.

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