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Among the most important productive sectors of Bangladesh is the garment industry. The total contribution of the garment industries to the national foreign exchange earnings is 83%. Though the garment sector has created substantial employment for female workers, female workers face numerous human rights violations at the workplace including sexual harassment, forced labor, maltreatment of supervisors, maternity leave problems, safety problem, and health problem etc. This qualitative study gathered data from male and female garment workers, as well as from senior managers and owners, and experts from NGOs and from universities. This study revealed social-cultural, economic, structural and organizational causes behind human rights violations of female garment workers. Some of the causes are deficiency of education, fear of losing employment through complaining, lack of awareness and government oversight, weakness of the National Human Rights Commission and human rights organizations, unwillingness of owners to face the issue, poverty, and entrenched patriarchy.

Recently dubbed the new 'Asian Tiger', Bangladesh developed a post-independence citizen-centered economic strategy that included generating non-farm jobs and constituting a new type of model or ideal citizen: the independent, prosperous, and entrepreneurial woman. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dhaka, in this article I document the model citizen campaigns by analyzing female ready-made garment factory workers' lives. I also outline the form that egalitarianism assumed in this context. I argue that through investigating the emergence of joggo nari—women who challenge gendered norms and hierarchies, aspire toward forms of gender equality, and represent new women of a new Bangladesh—central paradoxes of egalitarian dynamics, such as contradictory and multi-layered gendered relationships and expressions of personhood, desire, and freedom, may come into view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

bsenteeism is a major challenge for any organization in the current competitive world. Curbing absenteeism helps organizations achieve their targets and increases productivity. This study highlights the major causes of absenteeism in the production division of a garment industry under various dimensions, which influence on absenteeism like work environment, organizational culture, relation and co-operation, compensation and rewards, facilities, job satisfactory and security, and general factors. The Study helps to identify reasons for employee absenteeism in production division. Sample of 180 employees responses were considered for the study from the universe and the data were analysed, statistically. The study shows that the major factors like wages, other source of income, and bad relationship with supervisors were contributing to the major absence of employees from work. This clearly indicates that work environment, relation and co-operation, facilities provided by the organization and job satisfaction were the main components which are causing the employee absenteeism.

The current study focuses on attrition rate in the garment industries and the role of Human Resource Managers in combating it. The quest here is to assess the factors that lead to high rates of voluntary employee turnover among the garment industry workers. The study found that multiple factors contributed to employee turnover in different rates in different companies. The effect of turnover was witnessed across the various levels of employees. The major factor perceived to contribute to employee turnover was remuneration, high production expectations and lack of individual respect accorded to the workers in the course of daily working scenarios. The study used primary data collected through a questionnaire administered to 106 employees in garment industries located in Bangalore district. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the background of the development for micro-blogging viral marketing as well as its outstanding characteristics in the garment industries, the thesis, via the manner of a questionnaire, carries out its research upon the target interviewees from 18 to 35 years old in order to cover all the possible elements which might affect the will to disseminate viral marketing in the garment industries. The findings demonstrate that there are 4 main factors contributing to such affiliation, namely individual innovation, perceived usefulness, product quality, as well as the garment enterprise itself, among which the last factor plays the most significant role in influencing the diffusion of wills. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The present study was conducted with a view to explore the reasons behind workers' unrest in garment industries and to suggest measures that may be taken for minimizing these unwanted incidents. It was a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. Data were collected from 120 workers, 40 managers, 4 owners of four garment industries (two experiencing and two not experiencing unrest within last five years), and 3 leaders of owners' association. Results revealed that the major cause of unrest related to wage and timely payment. The other important reason included unhealthy relationship between workers and managers/supervisors. Production halt, unemployment problem and loss of revenue were the negative impact of unrest. The physical and psychological work environments of factory 'A' (having experience of unrest), 'C' and 'D' (having no experience of unrest) were much better than factory 'B', one having experience of unrest. Job satisfaction of workers with respect to job facet of 'supervision' differed significantly by industries experiencing unrest and those not experiencing unrest. Based on study findings, some recommendations were made to minimize workers' unrest in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research addresses the implementation of lean principles in an Indian garment export industry. The objective is to evolve and test various strategies to eliminate waste and to improve the productivity. This paper briefly describes the application of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED). Existing state production floor was modified by using VSM efficiently to improve the production process by identifying waste and its causes. At the same time, set up time is also reduced considerably. We conclude with evidence of the early results of the programmes as well as a number of key learning points for other organizations wishing to follow similar path. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]