SLIIT Conference and Symposium Proceedings
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All SLIIT faculties annually conduct international conferences and symposiums. Publications from these events are included in this collection.
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Publication Embargo Employing the deaf community: challenges and opportunities for companies in the developing world(SLIIT Business School, 2019-12-10) Charuka, W.A.A.; Samarakkody, N.W.; Senaviratne, V.E.M.G.; Wijayanayaka, K.A.M.S.This research investigates opportunities and challenges of employing deaf personnel in organisations in developing world. Though much research related employing people with disabilities is done in western countries, only a few similar empirical studies have been published in this part of the world. Hence an exploratory investigation is carried out adopting a grounded theory approach. Accordingly, five companies in Sri Lanka, both large and small, employing deaf people have been investigated. 23 operational-level deaf employees (DEs), with five supervising managers are the subjects involved. The results brought a number of opportunities for hiring DEs from strategic, productivity and customer satisfaction perspectives. Managers of all companies confirmed that their skills, ability to learn, concentration on work and the productivity are much higher than their parallel workers. The DEs are not provided with any special privileges (e.g. remuneration, leave, infrastructure facilities). Thus, there is no extra burden, financially or otherwise, to the company for hiring them. However, as a safety initiative all DEs are assigned to work together with a parallel worker with no hearing impairments. Two companies where DEs deal directly with customers confirmed that customer feedback on DEs are very positive. All managers indicated a negative comment that the DEs become emotionally disturbed when their communication is not heard well. The existed negative connation of all managers on DEs had disappeared after orientation. It can be concluded that employing DEs appear to be me more productive to the company, as highlighted in the past research studies of the developed world.Publication Embargo Contractarian Approach in Protecting Trade Secrets in An Employment Context(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences - SLIIT, 2021-03-26) Sumanadasa, D.Today, we live in a knowledge-based society where everything is valued upon knowledge. Trade secrets in this knowledge-based economy amount to capital although there is insufficient protection for them compared to other intellectual property rights. In a typical scenario, an employer believes that the comprehensive employment contract which includes non-disclosure and non-competition clauses would be the best way to protect their trade secrets from employees. However, these restraint of trade clauses may prejudicially affect employees’ right to have employment options. As such, this paper proposes that the courts should be able to equally concern the rights of employers in protecting trade secrets and the rights of employees in terms of their right to employability.