| dc.description.abstract | Sri Lanka Army annually consumes large number of papers which include unnecessary
consumption. On the other hand, Army while managing the paper consumption is
requires continuing with its main standards related with secrecy, e ciency, and e ectiveness.
By considering all the facts, it has introduced several methods to reduce the
paper consumption such as Army Mail System, Web platforms, Data Base Management
Systems, and several other methods. However, it is uncertain that the desired reduction
has been achieved through the said methods. Hence, this analysis was conducted with
the objective of identifying the challenges in adopting existing methods to reduce paper
waste in the Sri Lankan Army. The study research was developed based on the deductive
approach and mixed method where both qualitative and quantitative methods were used.
Accordingly, three personalities have chosen to conduct interviews to collect data for
the qualitative aspects and those were analysed using thematic analysis. A structured
questionnaire was distributed for 200 military personnel to collect data for quantitative
analysis and models were used in analysis. It was identi ed during the study that lack
of facilities such as computers and networking, insu cient skills and careless attitude
of related personalities, un-supportive organizational policies and user-unfriendly Web
platforms and Data Base Management Systems as main causes in adopting existence
methods. Further, conduct of training and awareness programs, organisational policy
amendments, modernization of user-interface of e-applications and allocating more vote
for establishing basic requirements for paper reduction programs were recommended to
overcome identi ed causes | en_US |
