TMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION ON EMPLOYEES' SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN DIVISIONAL SECRETARIAT AT BATTICALOA DISTRICT

Abstract

Organizations understand that internal and external communications at all levels of the organization improve organizational success and employee relations. Organizational communication has been studied with regard to employee subjective well-being. The decision to be happy and have a positive attitude has been the subject of hundreds of books, journal articles, speeches, studies, and workshops. The value of Organizational communication in an employee's choice to be happy is explained as it affects the individual, team, and overall organizational culture. Respondents are from the divisional secretariats development officers; the majority was found to be satisfied with their jobs and consider them to be positive in nature and happy in their work. In today's work environment communication is most important part of their lives. That means Organizational Communication as a strategy for building organizational communication in order to fulfill employees' well-being. Therefore the objectives of the current study are to identify nature, relationship and impact of organizational Communication on employees' subjective well-being. The primary data were gathered from 150 employees from selected three divisional secretariats through self-administered questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation and simple regression analysis in order to find the results of study objectives. The study has found that in the secretariats employees' organizational Communication & subjective well-being has overall moderate. Further it has found that there is a strong positive relationship between organizational Communication & subjective well-being. Questions were not asked that targeted life satisfaction, discrimination, or other factors that may affect in their well-being. The effect of other factors on affixture and job satisfaction can be significant and should be addressed in future studies in the divisional secretariats. The study contributes knowledge, experience and idea about organizational Communication & subjective well-being. In future, development officers got some ideas about communications standard around divisional secretariats and increase their well-being level. Therefore, the findings of this study have strong positive relationship and positive impact of organizational Communication & subjective wellbeing in divisional secretariats at Batticaloa district