Browsing by Author "Nanayakkara, SM"

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Emotional intelligence, technology strategy and firm’s non-financial performance
(2017) Nanayakkara, SM; Wickramasinghe, V; Samarasinghe, GD
It is necessary to understand, communicate and assimilate technology strategy with business strategies to increase the performance of a business. The literature also supports that successful organisations should adopt emotionally intelligent strategies to reach competitive advantage and sustainable growth. The main objective of the study is to investigate how technology strategy, with the emotional intelligence, affects non-financial performance factors of an organisation, and to investigate whether emotional intelligence moderates the direct relationship between technology strategy and non-financial performance factors of the firm. Accordingly, authors propose a conceptual model, which demonstrates the moderating role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between technology strategy and non-financial performance factors of the firm. Based on pilot study, we have considered internal business process and stakeholder satisfaction as non-financial performance factors. Based on the extensive literature review, this study develops three hypotheses to support the arguments; technology strategy positively influences non-financial performance factors of the firm, emotional intelligence positively influences nonfinancial performance factors of the firm, and emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between technology strategy and nonfinancial performance factors of the firm. Data were collected from 7 organisations listed under the Colombo stock exchange for the pilot study. Multiple linear regression is used to analyze data. The conclusions and practical implications of this study suggest how emotional intelligence can play a moderating role between strategic management of technology and non-financial performance factors which leads to organisational performance.
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Impact of emotional intelligence on strategic management of technology and organizational performance in the banking sector in Sri Lanka
Nanayakkara, SM; Wickramasinghe, V; Samarasinghe, GD
This study investigates the impact of the emotional intelligence on strategic management of technology and the organizational performance of the banking industry in Sri Lanka. The factors related to this are comprised of technology strategy, technological capability and technological knowledge management forming strategic management of technology (SMT) construct; experiential emotional intelligence, strategic emotional intelligence forming emotional intelligence (EI) construct; learning and growth, internal business process, stakeholder satisfaction forming organizational performance construct. A review of the literature was conducted to investigate and analyze the existing literature on managing the technology strategically, emotional intelligence and the performance of the organization. This resulted in the conceptual model and the hypotheses. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted drawing a sample of 1200 managers of seventeen banks in the Western Province which were registered under the Colombo Stock Exchange in order to test the conceptual model and the hypotheses. The data analysis was performed using SMART PLS based SEM technique. The study findings indicate that the suggested model achieved an acceptable fit with the data and the suggested hypothetical paths were significant. The findings provide a board picture of the influence of the emotional intelligence on the relationship between SMT and the performance of the organization. The study found that there is a moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the relationship between the strategic management of technology and the performance of the organization in the sector. Furthermore, it was evident that EI is more influential on the mentioned relationship than the well-established facts in the related literature. Based on the findings, the recommendations have been made in order to increase the performance of the Sri Lankan banking industry.
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Rhythm analysis in times of physical distancing: Sri Lankan case studies on covid-19 in brussels
(Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2020-12-15) Wandeler, KD; Mendis, RM; Nanayakkara, SM; Vasudevan, M; Dayaratne, R
This paper presents case studies of Sri Lankans who were confined in lockdown in the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so through research that Sri Lankan students produced within the framework of an explorative study conducted from March until May 2020. The study revolved around an exercise in rhythmanalysis as part of a course on Urban Anthropology at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. It involved 73 Master students as well as the respective respondents that each of them had selected among their countrymen residing in the BCR. The assignment was to document how the COVID-19 pandemic evolved in Belgium and their home country, to observe how that progression affected residents’ behaviour and public life in both contexts, and to record what usage the respondents made of social media to stay in touch with people back home. The first section of this paper reviews Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis theory and various ways in which it has been interpreted over the years. The second section describes how the theory was applied within the said Urban Anthropology course, how the methodology of the 2020 assignment was adapted to the COVID-19 context and what contextual information emerged from the amalgamated research outputs. The next three sections specify how the three Sri Lankan students handled the assignment. One reiterates the progression of the COVID-19 situation in the BCR and Colombo based on media reports and the students’ participant observation in public life. The next presents the students’ observations ‘as seen from the window’ i.e., from the limited perspective they had left on neighbourly life amidst lockdown. A third one details observations derived in collaboration with their respective respondents from recording and examining the respondent’s online behaviour over 72 hours. The last section of the paper assesses how the Sri Lankan observations mesh with overall outcomes of the study and what the research revealed about the level of adaptation that voluntary migrants achieved amidst confinement in the BCR. As part of their final reflections, the authors appraise the added value of the exercise as a whole and of rhytmanalysis as a research tool in particular.
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Role of strategic emotional intelligence on technological capability, technological knowledge management and organisational learning & growth
(IEEE, 2018-05) Nanayakkara, SM; Wickramasinghe, V; Samarasinghe, GD; Chathuranga, D
Throughout the years researches and practitioners have proved that the technology can play a significant role in gaining competitive advantage. However, despite superior technology, organizations may fail to successfully compete in the market place. One of the important factors to success for a technology aimed organization is the capability to learn and maintain knowledge and this involves the conversion of data into information. A company’s technological capability is developed over time and accumulated throughout its experience. When a business generates its technological capability, it invests considerable resources in research and development (R&D), which incorporates the development of unique products, the accumulation of knowledge stores, and the training of technical personnel. Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been identified as an important factor for corporate success. This study aims to investigate the moderating impact of strategic emotional intelligence i.e. Understanding Emotions (Self and Others), Managing Emotions (Self and Others), and Social Skills on technological capability and technological knowledge management towards enhancing the learning & growth of an organization. Based on the extensive literature review, this study develops five hypotheses to support the arguments. An empirical study with a questionnaire, was conducted on all banks which were registered under Colombo stock exchange in Sri Lanka in order to collect data. Structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyse data and the moderation effect has been tested using SMART PLS based Structural Equation Modelling. Study concludes a positive influence of Strategic EI towards organizational learning and growth and how Strategic EI moderates the relationship between technological capability, technological knowledge management and the learning & growth of an Organization.