Workplace training, development and career management activities in Bangladesh.

As of late, market is going competitive day by day, so that many countries are trying to sustain in the
market by using their competitive advantage. Human resource is the most unique resource to make it
competitive advantage. After the Second World War 2, the training program, development and career
management have become widespread among organizations’ in many countries. And they do believe
that people are unique resource which is also a competitive advantage for their company. An
organization can have new technology and equipment for their productivity but they can achieve
long term objective only if they were able to make proper use of the creativity factor of their
people. So, the employees need training to develop the skill of the employees to achieve long
term profit. To motivate the employee trough their career. And to meet employee and
organizational goal. For developing countries they need to provide the workplace training,
quality training and development, career opportunities. These are very important for any
company to compete with the competitive market.

As a develop country, Bangladesh has many growing industry and organization where thousands
of thousands people are working or we can say that here is creating many job works. So that
Bangladesh needs more trained workers or high skills employee to sustain in the global
competitive market that it can take competitive market.Training is the process of providing
employees with knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to successfully perform their current
job. (DeNisi & Griffin, R., (2005), Dessler et al. 2004)

After the liberation war 1971 the population growth is high in Bangladesh. If we compare to
other countries that we have strong human resource but we don’t have much quality employee or
high skills employee. So here no question is “How important workplace training, development
and career management is?”

We are just going to discuss about some few booming sectors where is high level of practicing
of workplace training,development and career management activities. Such as RMG, Labor
source, Call centre,Animation firm,and otheres

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If we analyse these sectors then we could be able to find how workplace training development
and career management activities leads in Bangladesh. By developing the employees technical
skils,English proficiency, there knowledge.

In those sectors need high skills labours and workplace training and development. Now many
company realised to train their employee. So that they are creating the HR Department to
evaluate and maintain employees. In Bangladesh HR practice is now strong and after the 10 to
15 years it will increase than today.

In RMG sector many company is already practicing the HR and obvious they are developing the
workplace training and development.

For example: The long term development of human resources as distinct from training for a
specific job is of growing concern to HR departments of SQUARE .Throw the development of
current employees the department reduces the company’s dependents on haring new workers .if
employees are developed properly the job openings found throw HR planning are more likely to
be filled internally promotions and transfers also show employees that they have a career not just
a job. The employee benefits from increased continuity in operations and from employees who
fail a greater commitment.

HR department is also an effective way to meets several challenges including employee

obsolescence, international and domestic diversity, technical challenges. Affirmative action and
employee turn over. By meeting these challenges the department can, maintain an effective
workforce. (reportbd, 2010)

There are many types of method practices in SQUARE .we discuss that method at bellow:

On the job training :On the job training is a training that shows the employee how to perform
the job and allows him or her to do it under the trainer’s supervision

Job rotation : Job rotation is a training that requires an individual to learn several different some
in a work unit or department and performer each job for a specified time period.

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Apprenticeship training: Apprenticeship training provides beginning worker with
comprehensive training in the practical and theoretical expect of work required in a highly
skilled occupation. Apprenticeship program combined of the job and classroom training to
prepare worker for more than eight hundred occupation such as computer operator, sewing
technician.
(reportbd, 2010)

There are many other methods that are already practicing and will be practicing in next 10 to 15
years in Bangladesh.

 Consultation
 Communities of practice
 Lesson study
 Mentoring
 Reflective Supervision
 E-learning
 Video conference
 Communities of practice
 Lesson study

(Wikipedia,Professional development,2010)

Most of the sectors in Bangladesh workplace training for woman is high now a days. In any
sectors we can see the woman who works equally. This practice will be more in next 10 to 15
years in Bangladesh. There are many courses taken by many companies where train the people
for job (BRIDDHI,2010). In next 10 to 15 years Bangladesh will increase other development
such as management games, outside seminars, university programs, role playing etc (Dessler et
al. 2004).In many university has HRM programs to develop those thing and to practicing. Day by
day in Bangladesh HRM is now popular subject to study.

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The people are now more focused on career planning. So the organization is not moving
backward, organization is also moving with them to meet the organization goals and its called
career management.( Dessler et al. 2004).Organization will provide more opportunities to
develop the career.And many organization is already did, like SQUARE, BAT.

For RMG, Labor,Call centre, Animation and the many other sectors need more trained people, so
that I think the workplace training, development and career management activities may change in
that way which are discussed above. Not even only Square is practicing those activities of
HR,there are also many multinational company who are practicing those such as
BAT,Rahimafroze.

References:
1. Dessler, G.,Griffiths,J.,Lloyd-Walker, B., (2004), Human Resource management, 2nd ed.,
Pearson Education, Australia.
2. BRIDDHI, n.d [online] visited/retrieved on 05/04/10, available at
http://briddhi.org/upload/aaa.doc
3. reportbd, n.d [online] visited/retrieved on 05/04/10, available at
http://www.reportbd.com/articles/67/8/HRM-practice-of-SQUARE/Page8.html
4. Wikipedia,Professional development,(online)visited/retrived on 04.04.2010,available at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development