Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of workplace recreation
activities on the well-being of employees at the Bank of Ceylon (BOC), Sri Lanka.
The sound literature review implied that workplace recreation activities became as a
one of the popular tool for improving Human Resource in terms of wellbeing of
employees. But in Sri Lankan context, it is comparatively low involvement of
workplace recreation programs were implemented by employer. The researcher
sought to fill this gap by investigating the effect of workplace recreation as well as
physical fitness programs, mental health programs, and workplace entertainment
programs on the wellbeing of employees. In this study it was used qualitative data
analysis approach to measure the association between workplace recreation activities
and employee wellbeing using chi-square test. The sample size of 52 employees was
selected and this 52 sample selected by using snowball sampling method. Workplace
recreation activities and employee wellbeing questionnaires were distributed to the
sample size. The findings revealed that physical fitness programs, mental health
programs and entertainment programs in workplace recreation activities and
employee wellbeing are associated significantly at 0.05 level of significance.
