Senior Lecturer
Management Studies
Email : hprp@mgt.sab.ac.lk
Doctor of Philosophy in Enterprise Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China (2018)
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Human Resource Management (HRM), University of Colombo (2010)
BSc Business Administration (Special) Degree, University of Sri Jayewardanepura (2004)
Professional Qualification of Human Resource Management (PQHRM), Institute of Personnel Management, Sri Lanka (2014)
Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE), Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka.
Dr. H.P.R.Priyankara is the former Head of the Department of Business Management of the Faculty of Management Studies. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Management Studies and a Visiting Lecturer of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Geomatics, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages of SUSL.
His research focuses on Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. Dr. Priyankara received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Emerald Literati Awards 2022 for his joint publication in the Employee Relations Journal. Additionally, he was honored with the Most Cited Researcher Award (2021) and the Highest H-Indexed Researcher Award (2022) by the Faculty of Management Studies, SUSL. He has published over 25 research papers in refereed journals and conferences, including seven publications in journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus (Elsevier), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics). As of Aug 2023, his research work has garnered more than 360 citations.
In terms of professional qualifications, Dr. Priyankara completed the Professional Qualification in Human Resource Management (PQHRM) at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) Sri Lanka and is an Associate Member of the institute. Prior to joining SUSL in 2005, he served as the Senior Operations Executive at American Premium Water Systems (Pvt) Ltd for three years.
He has held the positions of the Director Career Guidance Unit of SUSL, Coordinator of MSc Ayurvedic Hospital Management Degree program (2019 to date), Chairperson of MBA Curriculum Revision Committee (2022), Coordinator of University Development Grant of Higher Education for Twenty-first Century (HETC) project of SUSL (2013-2014), Coordinator of Soft Skills component of University Development Grant of Higher Education for Twenty-first Century (HETC) project of SUSL (2013-2014), Coordinator of Quality and Innovation Grant (QIG) of BSc Business Management (Special) Degree of the HETC Project (2014) and Cordinator of Practical Training Unit of Faculty of Management Studies (2008).
Associate Member of Institute of Personnel Management, Sri Lanka
Member of MBA Alumni Association of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Employee Green Behaviour, Joint Consultative Councils/Employees' Councils, Organizational Commitment, Social Networking Sites Recruitment, Green Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship.
"A Multi-level Study on Antecedents of Voluntary Employee Green Behaviour of Employees in Sri Lanka”
Journal Articles
Adhikaram, A.S., Priyankara, H.P.R, & Naotunna, N.P.G.S.I. (2021) Navigating the Crises of COVID-19: Human Resource Professionals Battle Against the Pandemic. South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management, 8 (2), 192-218. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F23220937211018021 (Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus)
Adikaram, A.S., Naotunna, N.P.G.S.I. & Priyankara, H.P.R. (2021) Battling COVID-19 with human resource management bundling, Employee Relations, 43(6), 1269-1289. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-08-2020-0390 (6 issues per year) (Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) B Ranking; Scopus; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) (Clarivate Analytics)
Mustofa, R.H., Pramudita, D.A., Atmono, D., Priyankara, R., Asmawan, M.C., & Rahmattullah. M. (2022) Exploring educational students acceptance of using movies as economics learning media: PLS-SEM analysis. International Review of Economics Education, 39 (2022), 100236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2022.100236 (Scopus Indexed)
Priyankara, H. P. R., Luo, F., Saeed, A., Nubuor, S. A., & Jayasuriya, M. P. F. (2018) How does leader’s support for environment promote organizational citizenship behaviour for environment? A multi-theory perspective. Sustainability, 10(1), 271 (SSCI)
Indexed Conferences (Conference Proceeding Citation Index (CPCI) of Thomson Reuters)
Conference Proceedings