Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices on Performance: Study on Employees in the Sri Lankan Banking Sector Manthreege Wasantha Kalyani Abstract This work explores the effect of strategic human resource management (SHRM) activities on organizational performance, mediated by employee retention in the Sri Lankan banking sector. The data consisted of 238 workers using a selfgoverning survey and analyzed using structural equation modeling.The results suggest that the three SHRM practices of capacity enhancement, skill enhancement and motivation enhancement have a significant indirect impact on organizational performance. The