{"id":3029,"date":"2021-05-05T07:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/?post_type=journal_article&#038;p=3029"},"modified":"2021-05-05T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:44:22","slug":"effect-of-dress-code-of-sri-lankan-female-school-teachers-on-their-job-performance","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/journal_article\/effect-of-dress-code-of-sri-lankan-female-school-teachers-on-their-job-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Dress Code of Sri Lankan Female School Teachers on their Job Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-691329 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-213081 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-754687 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\">U.G.L.B. Jayasooriya, Saliya De Silva, W.A.D.P. Wanigasundera<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\" gill=\"\" sans=\"\" mt\",sans-serif;=\"\" mso-bidi-font-family:\"gill=\"\" mt\";color:black\"=\"\">Abstract <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\" gill=\"\" sans=\"\" mt\",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:=\"\" \"gill=\"\" mt\";color:black\"=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"><i>The study examined how clothing of Sri Lankan female school teachers affects their job performances. A representative sample was selected among school teachers from Western and Central provinces. A Sequential Explanatory design integrating quantitative survey (n=100) along with qualitative interviews (n=15) and secondary data were used. Results revealed that evolution and current practices of female dress were more into promote nationalism\/culture. Though the current dresses of Sri Lankan school teachers are the Saree (for Sinhalese and Tamil teachers) and Abaya (for Muslim teachers), the majority of the respondents preferred to wear casual dresses (54%). Wilcoxon Signed Rank test showed significant differences in terms of perceived comfort and performing given four tasks (washing, ironing, dressing and walking after dressed) in favour of casual dress over traditional dress. Thirty percent of respondents have faced accidents due to their current dress. Aforementioned suggested that, teaching and performing extra-curricular activities would be more productive if they wear casual dresses.&nbsp;<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\"><span style=\"font-family:\" gill=\"\" sans=\"\" mt\",sans-serif;=\"\" mso-bidi-font-family:\"gill=\"\" mt\";color:black\"=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\" gill=\"\" sans=\"\" mt\",sans-serif;=\"\" mso-bidi-font-family:\"gill=\"\" mt\";color:black\"=\"\">Key words: <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\" gill=\"\" sans=\"\" mt\",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:=\"\" \"gill=\"\" mt\";color:black\"=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;=\"\" color:black\"=\"\">Dress Code, Job performance, Females, School teachers<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span style=\"color:black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-568513 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-919293 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-428069 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Download<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-661777 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-705648 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-302625 kc-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Paper-5-Final.pdf\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">\n\t\t<i class=\"fa-file-pdf\"><\/i>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-390791 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-865720 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-434090 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif;\">Cite this paper:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif;\">U.G.L.B. Jayasooriya, Saliya De Silva, W.A.D.P. Wanigasundera. 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