Dharshani Thennakoon

University of Colombo · Department of Human Resources Management

Societies’ ideologies on the distribution of unpaid labour seem to have remained stagnant despite dramatic shifts in the worlds of work and society. The distribution of unpaid labour has implications for the wellbeing of individuals and the sustainability of their various personal and professional relationships. Our study addressed the less-researc...

Physical environment of work (PEW) is considered to have implications on how employees in organizations work and behave. Organizations across the word invest heavily in their PEW. Various interior design elements, architectural design elements, and ambient conditions are being utilized by organizations in augmenting the PEW. This study asserts that...

Employee turnover is well-known for being both expensive and disruptive to business operations. Compensation and benefits have been identified as one of the main factors implicating employee turnover. However, not all organizations can afford to pay competitive compensation and benefits to retain employees and therefore have to resort to other huma...

Minor forms of negative behaviours such as workplace incivility incur detrimental effects on individuals and organizations. Employees’ moral disengagement encourages employee incivility while positive organizational cultural values are utilized to combat workplace incivility. We examine the relationship between perceived organizational cultural val...

Purpose: This paper explores how adolescent students from privileged backgrounds in a South Asian context make decisions about their career choices by investigating their career decision making process. Design/methodology/approach: Using a single case study method, guided by a semi-structured interview guide, we interviewed 12 students enrolled in...

Purpose: Career trajectory literature focuses on minority and marginalised career types, where that of managers in the manufacturing sector appear to be limited despite the unique nature of their career characteristics and career demands. We explore this to generate a pool of factors that could explain the career success of manufacturing sector man...

Purpose: Parenthood influences careers and family roles of women, making it challenging to return to work post childbirth. This paper explores the types of women centric wellbeing programmes (WCWP) available for women returning to work post childbirth, their level of awareness on WCWPs, and other factors that influence working mothers return to wor...

Effective management of Small and Medium Enterprises' (SME) performance is a crucial task as SMEs are recognized as the backbone and the growth engine of national economies. They play an important role from many directions such as economic growth, job creation, innovation and sustainable development. Prior research discuss links between market orie...

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performance is a crucial task since SMEs are recognized as the backbone and the growth engine of national economies. They play an important role from many directions, namely, in enhancing economic growth, job creation, innovation, and sustainable development. Prior research perspectives on SME performance is limited. Empirical data were collected t...

Purpose-For training to be successful, it should be transferred back on to the jobs. Despite the range of literature on training transfer, there is the need to gain clarity on how training transfers in complex and contemporary organizational contexts, especially in environments grappled with tensions. The purpose of this paper is to explore and dev...

Purpose There is wide acknowledgment that training people from all levels of an organization in process management activities and ‘process thinking’ is a major contributor to the success or failure, and sustainability of BPM. BPM training is provided in almost all BPM initiatives and involves the investment of valuable financial, human, informatio...

This paper is about the issues in Business Process Improvement (BPI) training transfer. There is ongoing training provided for BPIs. However, industry reports and research shows that the number of implementation failures in BPI have been substantial and the problem still remains unsolved. This paper places special emphasis on the transfer of BPI tr...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a topic that has received immense attention in information systems research and practice. While its adoption has been increasing rapidly, many companies struggle to find BPM professionals with the appropriate skills, hence BPM education has been an area of increasing interest as well. One big challenge for BPM e...

In recent times there have been urgent calls for reforms in the public sector, and thereby certain private sector management techniques have been advocated to be implemented in the public sector. Special emphasis has been placed on performance management and thereby performance appraisals in this regard. However, research and observation show that...