http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11145 2026-01-04T04:00:21Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11310 “For me, customers are not responsible”: Consumers’ role and responsibility in governing companies’ Corporate Social Responsibility in the state-led developing country context of Malaysia Tan, J.N. Consumers are increasingly being responsibilized for governing companies’ ethical, or corporate social responsibility (CSR), performance in developed countries. Little though is known about consumer responsibilization in developing countries, despite these countries’ rapid economic growth. This paper investigates consumer responsibilization in a non-Western developing country context where the state is a dominant economic and political actor. It draws from a qualitative study of 41 urban consumers in Malaysia. The analysis suggests an absence of state responsibilization of consumers for companies’ CSR conduct but consumer responsibilization for their self-protection. It highlights consumers’ national institutional system as significantly influencing their CSR expectations and perception that developing country consumers have no social responsibility for governing CSR conduct. Consequently, it questions the feasibility of responsibilising developing country consumers for business governance. It proposes that the voices of ‘invisible’ stakeholders like developed country consumers need to be included in the business governance, CSR, and consumer social responsibility conversation for a more comprehensive understanding of these phenomena. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11309 Truth or dare: can the mystery between different job demands and employee well-being and performance be solved? A conceptual framework and research agenda Tabassum, R. Occupational health and safety agencies have revealed that employees in human service sectors are particularly susceptible to experiencing high levels of psychological distress. While numerous scholars argue that acute job demands have adverse effects on employees' physical health and psychological well-being, previous studies have led to inconsistent findings regarding the impacts of chronic job demands on multiple work-related outcomes. Despite the wide-ranging interest in studying job demands, studies exploring the role of acute and chronic job demands on employees' psychological well-being and performance in high-demand and low-resource settings are mostly absent from the strategic human resource management (SHRM) literature. This review identifies the following three areas to narrow the gap in the SHRM literature: (a) highlight the individual as well as accumulated roles of acute and chronic demands on employee well-being and performance, (b) focus on the impact of acute and chronic job demands on employee well-being and performance with mediating mechanisms such as burnout and work engagement, and (c) the potential role of HPWSs that can moderate the adverse effects of acute and chronic job demands on employee outcomes. Furthermore, the proposed model facilitates a 'WellICBM being-Performance' enhancing workplace resulting from HPWSs in high-demand and low-resource settings. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11308 GIS integrated analysis of socio-environmental risk factors of dengue incidence reference to Colombo District, Sri Lanka Swarnapali, S.B.Y.; Weerakoon, K.G.P.K. Dengue could be considered a fast-growing vector-borne disease. The paper identifies the socioenvironmental risk factors affecting dengue incidence within dengue-prone areas and prioritizes the key risk factors to identify which highly affect incidence. Further spatial mapping of dengue-prone areas based on those factors attempts to identify dengue risk-prone areas within the study area. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey from all 57 dengue-confirmed households within the most risky Medical Officer’s Health (MOH) area in Colombo district of Western province, January-June, 2018. Eight variables were selected. Correlation and regression analysis were applied for investigating and testing the statistical significance in the relationship between socio-environmental parameters and dengue incidence. IDW interpolation technique of Geographical Information System (GIS) has been used to generate risk mapping of dengue incidence by linking the spatial points and significant socioenvironmental factors affecting incidence. The composite weight map considering all eight risk factors depicts the risk map with three risk levels (high, moderate, low). Findings shows that people should be more concerned about prevention measures against dengue and their own practices related to frequency of cleaning water storage containers in order to reduce the burden of dengue incidence. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11307 Leadership dimensions influencing sustainability leadership in Sri Lanka: Mediating effect of manager’s sustainable thinking and organizational change Sumanasiri, E.A.G. This study examines the mediation effect of sustainable thinking and organizational change on the leadership dimensions that influence sustainability leadership among Sri Lankan managers. Sri Lanka is a developing country with strong social-cultural values that promote sustainability. The responses of 821 managers were analysed using factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The findings confirm that stakeholder relations are the most influential dimension for creating sustainability leadership. Mediation analysis tests confirmed that the two mediators of sustainable thinking and change leadership fully mediate the relationships between employee engagement and the leader’s concern for social and environmental sustainability, which concern was identified as the weakest of the three leadership dimensions, suggesting that long-term orientation has less potential for creating sustainability leadership among Sri Lankan managers. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z