Dr. Prabhashini Wijewantha

Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Resource Management Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

I completed my Ph.D. from the Management and Science University (MSU), Malaysia in 2020. I was a member of the Batch 13 from Sri Lanka. Upon completion of the Research Methodology lecture series and the workshops, I undertook my research within large scale Sri Lankan private sector organisations which are emerging as multinationals (emerging market multinationals) giving a huge competition to the global corporate giants.

As Sri Lanka is currently focusing on promoting local industries to enter the international markets it is very important that we ensure the human resource in these organizations are ready and willing to support this business mission. Given this situation, my research study focused on ensuring health and wellness (wellbeing) of these employees by supporting them to minimise joband work-related stress. As such, it is important to see how organisations could minimize these stressors by largely focusing on issues such as internal organisational politics which has largely become a hidden killer of organizations. In undertaking this research study, I was able to further my understanding in the areas of research methodology and data analyses.

As such, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisors from MSU, Malaysia, the Senior VP for Post Graduate, Business and Social Science Cluster, Dean Graduate School of Management, and the Director and the staff of MSI Learning Centre, Colombo for their support extended during undertaking this insightful research study which I undertook.