LEVEL OF ADAPTATION OF GREEN HU lAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA.
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2016
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It is evident that contemporary corporate practices consist of environment friendly
approaches instead of purely be 'money focused'. It is plausible to find in the
literature the importance of adapting environmental management practices as a key
objective of organizational operations, backed by corporate human resource
management practices. Thus, a critical debate, today is how sustainability is achieved
by practicing green management concepts through the effective management of
workforce. As a result, contemporary human resource management has taken
initiative to cater to organizations' green practices under green human resource
management. Therefore, this study is dedicated to identify the extent to which the
human resource management processes have aligned with green management
practices as green human resource management practices in the Apparel Industry in
Sri Lanka.
The sample was selected based on simple random sampling method and population
refers to the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. For the selected sample of thirteen
companies in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka, well-structured questionnaire was
distributed and the results gathered from the responses were analyzed usmg
descriptive statistics technique for testing the achievement of objectives and
frequencies and percentages for data presentation. Data were collected using both
primary and secondary sources. Primary data were collected through questionnaires
and secondary data was collected from the previous studies, websites, books, articles
and other related publications. Twelve objectives were set to test Elevenhuman
resource management practices to achieve the research purpose. The findings revealed
that only job design and analysis showed a high level of adaptation of green
management concept while all the other human resource management practices
showed moderate and low level of adaptation of green management concepts. Thus,
the study bridged a gap in the literature in revealing the extent of adapting green
human resource management practices in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka, while
recommending to the apparel companies to adapt green HRM at least in the major HR
processes like recruitment and selection, training and development, performance
management, reward management and health and safety management in order to
improve their environmental performance in a more sustainable manner.
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Green Management, Human Resource Management Practices, Green Human Resource Management, Environment Management
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Krishantha, P.D.D.M.(2016). LEVEL OF ADAPTATION OF GREEN HU lAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA. M.HRM.Thesis, University of Kelaniya