Abstract

Performance of managers greatly affects the product and services of the organization and the lapses in managerial performance will create a drop in the product or service of the particular organization. This paper sets out to understand the managerial lapses of the performance of mangers and to give recommendations for future similar studies based on identifying managerial performances and the relationships. Desk research was conducted by means of a preliminary literature survey to investigate the existing managerial performances. Accordingly, the secondary data from the local and international sources were used including the Sri Lankan government organizations like Auditor General Department etc. There were managerial deficiencies associated with the several managerial aspects in Sri Lankan state universities. After analysis of the secondary data it was revealed that major managerial lapses associated with the managerial inefficiencies followed by the non-compliance with the rules and regulations in Sri Lankan state universities. It is recommended to have further investigations based on the identified lapses of the managerial performance, by using different samples of the universities under number of local and global contexts for the betterment of the university community.