Green HRM and Environmental (Green) Attitude: Do Green HRM Practices of Sri Lankan Tiles Industry Affect to Determine the Environmental (Green) Attitudes of the Employees?
Keywords:
GHRM, Environmental (Green) Attitudes, Tiles IndustryAbstract
Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) plays a key role to determine the green practices in any organization. There are various ways of developing green practices within the organization through GHRM. Among the different ways, developing green attitude among the employees is important and significant. This study is aimed at discussing the impact of GHRM towards developing the environmental (green) attitudes among the employees. 81 employees in the Sri Lankan Tiles Industry was selected through simple random sampling method. Self-developed two instruments were used to gather the primary data from the sample and correlation analysis and simple regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The major finding of the study is that there is a significant impact (8.2%) from GHRM towards developing the environmental (green) attitudes among the employees.
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