Abstract:
The biggest issue affecting private-sector organizations is fast expanding competition,
which has resulted in a high work load for employees. Environmental and
psychological pressures on leaders and supervisors lead to abusive supervision and
employees' equality sensitivity. to survive in the highly competitive business
environment, the organizations are focusing on capitalizing its human recourses
through self-regulated learning. The application of equity theory and its impacts are
rarely considered in studies of self-regulated learning and the link between the fwcr
theories are remains unclear. In fact, the role of equity theory and its impacts are rarely
considered in studies of self-regulated leaming. Hence, there is a need to identifr the
impact of equity sensitivity on employee self-regulated learning. In addition to that,
only few studies so far have been conducted to explore impact of equity sensitivity on
employee self-regulated learning of employees which show an empirical knowledge
gap of the selected private business organization of Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka. In this
study Equity sensitivity is considered as an independent variable and employee selfregulated learning is considered as a dependent variable.
A cross-sectional survey using structured questionnaire wa.g used to collect data from
to 187 employees in private organization of Nuwara Eliya and all the items in the
independent and dependent variables were tested through reliability test to ensure the
consistency of the scale. Llnivariate analysis was carried out and the results show
employees have high levelof Equity sensitivity and employee self-regulated learning.
The correlational analysis was carried out and the result indicated there w.as a positive
relationship between equity sensitivity and employee self-regulated learning. The
simple linear regression analysis was carried out and the results revealed that equity
sensitivity significantly and positively impact on employee self-regulated learning
employees. Moreover, the above stated empirical knowledge gap has been filled
certain extent through these research findings in apparel industry.
