Jayasundara Manufacturing Company After 05 weeks of Mr. Dananjaya's absence there was a laborur conflict in the company Jayasundara Manufacturing Company' recruited Ms. Dulanjali as a Graduate between supervisors and machine operators. However, Ms. Dulanjali was able to settle Management Trainee from the month of January of the year before the last year. She was this conflict with the help of workers. But, during this period there was an increase in the graduated in Human Resource Management from a recognized university and she has percentage of rejected goods due to poor quality. worked in a university as a Temporary Lecturer in Human Resource Management for 11 At the first Executive Officers' Meeting after Mr. Dananjaya's return, the Chairman months prior to this appointment. After the training period of one year she was appointed highly appreciated the actions taken by Ms. Dulanjali in order to settle the labour conflict. as the Assistant Human Resource Manager of the Jayasundara Manufacturing Company. Mr. Dananjaya was unhappy about the chairman's speech because, although the Mr. Dananjaya is the Human Resource Manager of this company and he was unhappy Chairman appreciated the settlement of the conflict, he did not mention anything about with Ms. Dulanjali's appointment, because he wanted a male to be appointed to this post. the increased percentage of rejected goods. The following day Mr. Dananjaya called Ms. Mr. Dananjaya prefers males because through his 10 years experience, he believes that Dulanjali to his office and blamed her mentioning that she had not worked as he workers in this company are very tough and only males can handle this type of expected. workforce. Therefore, he delegated simple jobs such as employees' record keeping, A few days after this incident, while Mr. Dananjaya was having a friendly talk with the salary administrations to Ms. Dulanjali and kept jobs like handling labour conflicts with General Manager, Mr. Dananjaya said in a very frustrated manner "can you remember I him. mentioned that females are not suitable for human resource management activities? Now During last 10 years there had been a number of labour conflicts in the company and he see what has happened, here specially graduates try to implement theories directly that was able to manage all these conflicts in favour of the management and he was tough at they have learnt in the university. So, Ms. Dulanjali is also trying to do the same thing. all those occasions. She has behaved in that manner during my absence in order to attract the management". Five months after Ms. Dulanjali's appointment as the Assistant Human Resource Manager, Mr. Dananjaya had to go abroad for 02 months for a short term training programme. Before he left, he called Ms. Dulanjali and explained how he worked and