2018 IRC Articles: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction with Regard to Divisional Secretariats
(2018)The aim of the study was to measure the service quality levels of divisional secretariats and to analyze its impact on customer satisfaction. This study, further, help suggest strategies for the quality of service offered ... -
Knowledge Management Involvement in Improving Human Resource Management of the Organizations
(2018)Human Resource Management is identified as essential for driving the human resource of any organization towards the success. Since they possess the knowledge required to execute job functions and create new knowledge to ... -
Emerging of Army Bulk Petroleum Reserve as a Critical Supply Chain Infrastructure in Sri Lanka Army
(2018)The present military logistics system would be planning in such a manner that military forces should be able to sustain the men and material for any type of war scenarios. Oil is the main energy source of all running equipment ... -
Analysis of Health and Safety Practices Affecting the Productivity of HumanResources in the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka
(2018)The apparel industry contributes a significant amount to Sri Lanka`s economy and GDP. It is one of the fastest growing industries in Sri Lanka and it is a major employment generator. As it is relying highly on human capital, ... -
Causal Attributions of Product Harm Crisis and Consumer Moral Reputation Toward the Wounded Company- How Does Societal Damage Matter?
(2018)Despite large body of research on product harm crisis, wide spreading crises in the global market place induce the study to investigate the matter through a new empirical angle, i.e., company`s moral responsibility ... -
The Impact of Transactional Contract Fulfillment on Organizational Commitment in Selected Banks in Batticaloa District
(2018)Employees are the essence of success in every bank. In order to be successful, a bank must ensure the organizational commitment among the employees. Transactional Contract Fulfillment has been considered as one of the most ... -
Tourist Motivational Factors That Affect Tourist Visiting Decision-A Case of Sri Lanka
(2018)With the globalization and the open market policies of different nations, the movement from one country to another has been drastically increased among the people. Out of the most sustainable industries in the world, the ... -
Determinants of Moonlighting of Teaching Professionals in Sri Lanka
(2018)Moonlighting; holding two or more jobs by one individual has become a key feature in the current labour market in Sri Lanka. The majority of professionals moonlight due to financial motives, heterogeneity motives, flexibility ... -
Social and Psychological Dimensions of Queer Representations in IndianCinema: anInterpretative Analysis
(2018)There are many subject matters that are concealed under the veils of invisibility and ignominy by the society and the issues revolving around sexuality and gender rightly qualifies under this category. Such is the overwhelming ... -
Buddhist Practices in Rehabilitating War-Affected Children: a Sociological Study of How Buddhist Practices Contribute to the Rehabilitation of War-Affected Children in Sri Lanka
(2018)The purpose of this paper is to examine the role that Buddhist practices for war-affected children in Sri Lanka can play in the overall scheme of rehabilitation and reconciliation. After 1970, more research paved way for ... -
Psycho-Social Factors Associated with Sri LankanWomen Seeking Employment in Middle East Countries as Housemaids.
(2018)Sri Lanka is known to export female migrant workers as housemaids. Increasing evidence shows this phenomenon leads to abuse of migrant females in host countries and adversities to their children at home. This study was ... -
Traditional Techniques of Dyeing Textiles with Natural Dyes: a Case Study of Southern Province in Sri Lanka.
(2018)Dyeing with plant-based extracts has a long tradition in the world. The desire for more bright and stable colours can be seen as one of the strong driving forces in the historical development of natural dyes. Today synthetic ... -
Study on Awareness of Cyber Security Among Primary Teacher Trainees in Addalaichenai Govt. Teachers` College
(2018)Cyber Crime is on the increase everywhere in the world. A large number of people have become victims to this crime. It has affected not only the dealer, but also teachers and students to a great extent. Small children are ... -
Influence of Push and Pull Travel Motivational Factors on International Tourists Re-Visit Intention to Gall in Sri Lanka
(2018)Tourism plays a dominant role in Sri Lanka and tourism industry consider as a major foreign currency earner in the economy. Hence, International tourists perform most prominence role in the country. However, as compared ... -
The Need for Insider Perspective in Language Codification; a Study in Relation to Sri Lankan English Codification
(2018)Defined as the "language used by Sri Lankans who choose to use English for whatever purpose in Sri Lanka (Gunesekera, 2005, p. 11), Sri Lankan English (SLE) is gradually accepted as a newly institutionalized variety of ... -
Critical Review of Literature on Giving Corrective Feedback in Tesol Sessions
(2018)Giving corrective feedback in classes has widely been discussed in Second Language Acquisition focusing on the requirement of the feedback and the types of feedback based on the time and the purpose of providing them. The ... -
Improving Oral Presentation Skills in Undergraduates Through Constructive Criticism (As a Bi-Product of Scaffolding)
(2018)English is a global language at present and it is considered the key to knowledge, information, communication, technology, travel, trade and business (Turmapang, 2012). As there is a continuous rise in the unity of people ... -
Assessing the Composing Competency of Adult Second Language Learners Enhanced Through Increased Self-Confidence During Portfolio Based Learning
(2018)Writing being a language skill hard to acquire, but essential for academic success, identifying the learner attitudes towards it is important. This study is devoted to investigate the possibility of developing the ... -
Power and Displacement: En Route to Female Empowerment
(2018)Empowerment and liberation are frequently associated with women portrayed in literature. In a significant body of literature in English, the acquisition of female liberation is depicted as a result of displacement. 'Displacement` ... -
The Symptom of Situational Consciousness in Third-World Literature: Exploring Salman Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children
(2018)-This study claims that Fredric Jameson`s (1986) situational consciousness is prevalent in Salman Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children (2006) to the extent that it is identified as a 'symptomatic deadlock` (Žižek, 1994) from which ...