The Study On The Differences In Demographic Characteristics On Performance Of Academic Employees.

Abstract

This study aims at determining the differences in Demographic Characteristics on the performance of academic staff in the Eastern University, Sri Lanka. A total of 97 academic staff participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Mean, Standard Deviation (SD) and Spearman’s ranked order coefficient were used to analyze the data collected while ANOVA and multiple regressions were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 probability levels. The findings revealed high level performance of academic staff in the Eastern University, Sri Lanka. The study intended to examine whether the demographic profile of the respondents make any differences on the employee performance in the Eastern University, Sri Lanka. In order to verify the difference in employee performance as a result of variation in the demographic profile of the respondents ANOVA analysis was carried out. Three items of personal attributes was considered in the demographic profile of the respondents. According to the ANOVA analysis it was found that there are no significant differences in employee performance between male and female employees of Eastern University, Sri Lanka. The results of the analysis revealed that Employees who are above 60 years of age are more willing to support towards employee performance than the employees who are less than 60years of age. The analysis revealed that there are no significant differences in employee performance between married and widowed employees of Eastern University, Sri Lanka.