Role of HRD in Textile Sector

The advent of technological advancement in industrialbargaining power of the labor, legal policies and the
set-ups has altered the working conditions andscenario of the labor market. This has started since
requirements on the part of employees andthe foundation of WTO (World trade
employers. Also the changes in government policiesorganization).Human resource developmentTextile
have also been taken place since the last decade.industry gives employment to millions of people. In
Different work patterns like night shift, part time work,order to recruit skilled workforce in textile sector,
overtime, etc is being experienced. The situation isproper training programmes would thus facilitate in
same in textile sector also.Now-a-days the recruitmentsupply of well qualified workforce. Thus the role of
of the workforce has become a specialized field. TheHRD has gained momentum in terms of employing
main motive is skill development as technical jobs aremanpower that satisfies the professional requirements
becoming more complex and demand moreof this sector and that is well skilled. Thus many
professional skill. As at managerial and marketing level,collaboration among many multinational companies and
skills and knowledge demand have increased ineducational institutions is been observed.The HRD
importance. So before imparting training with respectdepartment of any company is responsible recruiting
to textile or garment industry the training programskilled labors and executives, allocation and planning of
should be so designed that it covers the skills that willwork, monitoring of workforce and performance
be required in long term and short term basis.Manyappraisal. It is also responsible to timely upgradation of
countries of the world have understood theskills of the workforce by organizing educative
importance of human resource development, thusprofessional workshops or seminars. If HRD activities
encourages the business organizations to take activeare carried out in proper professional manner it could
part in designing and execution. The changing face ofresult into minimization of cost and wastage, right
business organizations in national and internationalrecruitment of workforce, increased stability of the
markets demands a new breed of skills that arecompany, flexible enough to cope up with futuristic
non-technical in nature.Generally, when some new skillsdevelopments and most important maximizes
are to be taught to upgrade the ongoing work profile,production.Human Resource in textile sectorThe
on the job training and special course classes could beadvent of HR practices in textile sector was rather
arranged to upgrade the employee's skills andslow in comparison to other industrial sectors. But due
knowledge. But after a certain level, the recruitment ofto globalization there is increase in competition as a
higher posts requiring specialized skills are done throughresult development of human resource has become
direct recruitment method. If the employers wish toessential. However organized HR practices are being
extent the contribution of laborers in growth in textileadopted mostly by the mill sector. In last decade we
industry, then the laborers should be given technical ashave seen not so good performance by textile sector,
well as non-technical training to enhance their skills andthis was because of lack of HRD department in many
knowledge base.HR inferenceIntroduction of newmills. But the scenario has changed as HRD
technologies and processes in the textile industry havedepartments have taken up their role in textile sectors.
increased productivity on the one hand, but had beenVarious training programmes pertaining to training of
the cause of redundancy and eventual retrenchmentworkforce, textile related topics have helped in
for a lot of workers who used to work in repetitive,enhancing the overall performance of the textile
boring but labor intensive job in this particular sector.companies.In order to get increased productivity from
This condition is happening not only in developingworkforce it is essential to have a well framed HRD
countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. but insystem in the organization. If the principles of HRD are
industrialized countries as well, which were able toadopted it could result in decrease in non-attendance
increase productivity through developments inby 20% and increase in productivity by 30%. So to
technology.With the technological advancement in thecope up with the market competition HRD is very
textile industry the overall production with higher qualityessential element for the textile industry.HRD
is been seen, due to usage of high end machineriesdepartment is responsible for developing the feeling of
and technologies it has been a witnessed that themotivation in the employees, this motivation in other
number of workers employed in the textile sector arewords is the commitment of the employees towards
facing job-loses. This scenario is same in developed asthe job and the organization. When the work of HRD
well as developing nations where there is increasedis done effectively it would result into co-operation
productivity due to advanced technology, but cut in theamong team members, demolition of centralized
number of laborers.There are four elements ofsystem of decision making, creates homely
production namely manpower, time, materials andenvironment, feeling of ownership and positive working
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