The Green Road to Environmental Performance: A Study of Private Banking Sector in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Abstract

The challenging business setting requires the companies to adopt and pay a greater attention to the sustainability and environment concerns, in addition to their profit. Currently, many organizations are undertaking green practices to promote social responsibility among workers at the workplace. This study links “green HRM and environmental performance” to the Sri Lankan context. It aims to examine the influence of green HRM practices (green recruitment, green training and development and green employee involvement) on the performance of the employees in the selected private banks in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The data collected from 200 structured questionnaires from employees of the selected private banks comprised the sample for the study. Data was analysed by using SPSS (21.0). Descriptive analysis and regression analysis were carried out. The results indicate that green recruitment has a significant impact on environmental performance while green employee involvement has been eliminated from the model. This emphasizes that human resource is provoked to behave due to the sophisticated green HRM practices which are internally embedded into the personalized behaviour rather formal remits.