http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5280 2026-01-07T05:59:07Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5287 Incentives for Adoption of Environmental Management Practices among Textile and Apparel Manufactures in Sri Lanka Hemachandra, D.W.K. Fifty eight percent of export earnings and fifty two percent of industrial employments are generated by the textile and apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Despite their economic importance the sector too contributes to environmental pollution. Surprisingly, some textile and apparel manufactures in Sri Lanka have introduced some voluntary mechanisms to reduce the level of environmental pollution caused by their operation. Existing literature has explained different reasons for their adaption decision without specifying the most powerful motive which caused their decision. In addressing this unfulfilled literature gap, the study intends to explore the most significant factors for the adoption decision among Sri Lankan textile and apparel manufactures. In addition, the study further provides an understanding of the existing legislative background as well as determining whether this legislative background provides any incentives for their adoption decision. The findings of this novel study expect to motivate non-adopters within and among industries. Case study strategy was used in the study to achieve its objectives. The study examined factories registered in the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and an industry based survey from BOI registered textile and apparel manufactures in Sri Lanka. Survey data were analysed quantitatively to identify the significant factories that drives their adoption decision. Environmental management practices are identified with four variables; ISO 14001 certification, environmental audits, water recycling procedures and material reuse as well as factory characteristics, regulatory pressures and market based pressures are identified as the explanatory variables for their adoption decision. Accordingly, the study found that more than 96% of the factories have adopted at least one voluntary practices and are influenced by factory characteristics and market based pressures. The study revealed that the regulatory pressures are not significant and there are many issues in the existing legal background; especially in implementing and monitoring. Hence, this novel study contributes to both manufactures and policy makers by identifying the drivers and gaps in the legal system. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5285 Factors Contributing to Students’ Academic Performance: A Case of University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Sriyalatha, M.A.K. This study examined the factors affecting academic performance based on a study conducted at the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. The sample consisted of 200 undergraduate students selected from the 2500 students of the faculty. The 200 respondents were selected using random sampling method from 3 rd year and 4th year students of the faculty. The data were collected through structured questionnaires. As the main technique of data analysis a multiple regression model has been employed to quantify the impact of different factors affecting the academic performance of students measured by their Grade Point Average of semester examinations. The findings of the study showed that mothers’ education levels made a significant contribution to the students’ academic performance. However, English knowledge of the students becomes the second important factor which influences students’ academic performance. Students with higher levels of attendance for lectures have positive effect towards their academic performance. Further, higher socio-economic status exhibits a positive significant impact on students’ performance. Further, the study employed an independent sample T-test and correlation analysis to identify differences among various group of students and the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Fourteen hypotheses were tested by employing an independent sample T- test in the study to explore whether the mean values of GPA among different student groups were equal or not. The null hypothesis is that the mean value of GPA of the two groups is equal. Nine null hypotheses were rejected at 1 % level of significance. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5284 Education Service Delivery Economics of the Sri Lankan State University System: Cost Competitiveness, Concerns and Strategic Opportunities Gunaruwan, T.L.; Samarasekara, T.; Gamage, A.P.E. Given the national objective of developing Sri Lanka into a knowledge hub in the South-Asian region, the Sri Lankan State University system would be expected to play a pivotal role in developing the country’s human resource. Even though the national universities, through free education, have realized many achievements towards this direction, bureaucratic governance and budgetary constraints have limited the further development of the State-run national university system to cater to growing demands. This has forced candidate students to opt for alternatives offered by local and foreign private universities. There is also the perception that the present State university structure is cost-ineffective and thus is a burden on national coffers. This question of cost-competitiveness of the Sri Lankan higher education sector was subjected to examination in the present study. The results indicated that the State university system is significantly cost effective in producing graduates of internationally acceptable quality. An in-depth analysis on the discipline of Medical Sciences confirmed that the Sri Lankan State university system is capable of, cost-wise, competing with international universities in producing medical graduates. Letting the State university system suffocate within bureaucratic governance and budgetary constraints is thereby proven unwarranted as the system appears capable; not only of cost-effectively meeting the local demand for higher education but also of being internationally marketable, potentially becoming a true knowledge-hub, paving the way to earn foreign exchange to the national economy. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5283 What Determines Recreational Television Behaviour of People? A Study With Reference to the Gampaha District Wijenayake, K.V.A.H.P.; Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C Although the television industry carries great importance in micro and macroeconomic aspects and supports a great demand as a recreational or leisure source among people, it seems that the television industry is lagging behind its actual capacity and is widely contributing to the domestic GDP. Less effective management and poor identification of choices of people has driven the industry toward poor conditions. Therefore, this study contributes to identify the factors that support the television program preferences of people, selection of public or private channels and time spent in front of the television. These identifications would indeed help the television industry to achieve maximum capacity while competing effectively in an oligopolistic market and achieving higher contribution to the national GDP. In order to obtain the statistical analysis, primary data has been gathered from four Grama Niladari Divisions of the Gampaha Divisional Secretariat in the Western Province, Sri Lanka. Simple random sampling procedure has been carried out in the sample selection process and data has been gathered from 609 individuals in 168 households; from February 2015 to April 2015, to identify determinants of programme preferences and public/private channel choices, the binary logistic regression model has been applied. The semi log regression model is used to identify the determinants of television watching hours of the people. Results in the binary logistic model of programme preferences emphasize that old, male, married and employed individuals are showing more interest in news and knowledge related programmes while creating positive significant relationships with the news and knowledge based programme demand. When a person is being employed, public channels were mostly preferred creating significant positive relationship while when a person is having specific political norm, they prefer mostly private channels and create significant negative relationship in the model. Regarding the hours allocated for watching television by the people, age, marital status and employment status shows positive relationships within the model. Considering the employed segment; when a person has more than 8 hours of working time, it shows a significant negative relationship with television watching hours. In descriptive statistics, it shows that old and middle aged people are more interested in watching news and politics related programmes while females mostly prefer programmes containing soft content such as tele-dramas and religion based programmes. Considering news preference in separate, Him TV was leading among other channels. “Atapattama” on ITN was the most preferred knowledge based programme followed by “Doramadalawa” on ITN. “Satana” programme on Sirasa TV was the mainly preferred political programme among individuals. On the other hand, when it came to tele-dramas, the largely favoured Indian mega dramas were “Me AdarayaF and “Sapna”, telecast by Sirasa TV. “Hiru CountDown” was leading among the respondents when it came to their most preferred musical programmes. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z