Green Human Resource Management in Public and Private Sector Firms in Western Province – Sri Lanka

Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM) is an emerging subject in the global context today. It is a step towards sustainable organizational trading performances for profit optimization. This is a recent phenomenon in Sri Lanka, where Green HRM practically struggles to deal with adverse environmental consequences within many firms. Many environmental issues frequently arise in line with broad corporate imperfections. Therefore, the decline of ecological imbalance along with a green economy should be strongly considered by the corporate sector. The sector of the firm might be affected to change the potential for Green HRM performance, and the difference between public and private sector firms needs to be understood. This study attempts to analyze the performances of Green HRM between public and private sector firms as a Green HRM initiative. Two research objectives were set with this intention; identifying significant Green HRM practices between public and private sector firms on solid waste disposal, and the creation of the Relative Importance Index (RII) for defining possible gaps between the two sectors. To achieve the first objective, 8 socioeconomic indicators and 8 Green HRM practices were arranged on solid waste (SW) disposal. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) results reveal that age, number of employees, SW reduction and use of separate bins are indicators which are highly significant at 0.000. The second objective was achieved by using the Relative Importance Index (RII).