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Impact of Green Environmental Planning on Managing Work Related Employee Stress in Sri Lankan Apparel Companies

Reducing stress levels of the employees is one of the major problems that apparel companies have been suffering since last several years. Human Resource is one of the major assets which are used to gain a competitive advantage in an organization. Therefore, it is essential to provide better working environment for employees inside the organization. With regards to the situation, organizations are highly involved with different kinds of environmental planning today and Green Environmental Planning (GEP) is one of them. This study was conducted to assess the impact of GEP on managing Work Related Employee Stress (WRES) and to suggest appropriate ways and means of making GEP more effective to reduce WRES in selected apparel companies of Sri Lanka. The study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The sample selected for the research was 120 workers through stratified random sampling technique. It was found that there is a small but definite negative relationship between GEP and WRES while eco-friendly color usage is the most influential factor for reducing stress. The explanatory power of the model was 16.7 percent of the variance in the measure of WRES. With regards to the face-to-face interviews done by the researcher, it was identified that employees would like to see natural environmental views and dust free working environment as a solution for reducing stress. Recommendations can be incorporated as effective green solutions to create stress free, healthy working environment to all employees in the relevant field.