Identification of Mechanism to Improve The work Efficiency: A Case of Information Technology (IT) Lecturers at Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (Sliate) in Sri Lanka

The Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education is a leading institute in Sri Lanka for providing technological education to the nation. This institute nowadays is known as an alternativehigher education to the universities of Sri Lanka. Eleven (11) Advanced Technological Institutes (ATIs) and eight (08) ATI sections are functioning under hub of SLIATE. In those nineteen institutes, eighteen institutes conducting Higher National Diploma in Information Technology (HNDIT) to students who successfully completed Advanced Level examination for any stream in Sri Lanka. The last three decades, industry of IT changes very rapidly. In every fractions of a second, more innovations or inventions come in or go out. To satisfy the needs of this industry is very challenging task. The growth of IT is affecting all the fields in the world.

The present study is made an attempt to identify the mechanism of SLIATE and ITlecturers to improve the work efficiency along with rapidly changing IT industry. To achieve the aforesaid objective data is gathered from fifty-five IT lecturers of SLIATE working at different Advanced Technological Institutes those are located in several part of Sri Lanka. Due to small population and avoidance of sampling errors, censes was taken in data gathering. It is found that most of the respondents are dissatisfied by the facilities available at ATIs, training and development opportunities, motivations and Salary provided by SLIATE. All those factors massively influences on the efficiency of lecturing and effectiveness of learning in this higher educational sector.