Bangladesh University of Professionals

Term Paper
Topic: Future of Garments Industry of Bangladesh
Course Name: Industrial Relation
Course Code: MGT -3202

Submitted To:
Md. Awal Al Kabir
Associate Professor

Submitted By
Group: Dynamic Developers

Section: B

Abdullah Al- Mamun Md. Zahirul Islam

ID: 18241004 ID: 18241024
Nafisa Mehjabeen Samiha Binta Kaikobad
ID: 18241078 ID: 18241050
Asma - Ul – Husna Masuma Akter Sharna
ID: 18241094 ID: 18241102
Department of Management Studies

Date of Submission: 23rd November 2020

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Letter of Transmittal

23rd November 2020

Md. Awal Al Kabir

Associate Professor

Subject: Submission of Term Paper.

Dear Sir,

I am here by submitting our Term Paper, which is a part of the BBA Program curriculum and
Industrial Relation course.

This Term Paper is based on, “Future of Garments Industry of Bangladesh”

To prepare this report we have collected most relevant information to make this term paper more
logical and reliable. we have tried my best to achieve the objectives of the report and hope that
our effort will serve the purpose.

We will be always available for answering any queries on the paper. Any sort of query or any
criticism on this report will be beneficial for me, as it will give us the opportunity to learn more
and enrich our knowledge. We hope you will consider the mistakes that may take place in the
report in the spite of our best effort.

MD. Zahirul Islam

ID: 18241024

Section: B

On behalf of Group Members

Department of Management Studies

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Abstract
The RMG industry in Bangladesh has grown in an unplanned manner and a critical demand-
supply gap has arisen for both yarn and fabric. The crisis will naturally deepen unless appropriate
backward linkages, the incorporation of the fundamental steps in the textile industry all through
to the RMG industry can be built to meet the rapidly approaching challenges in the global textile
market. As the population is growing and the standard of living is increasing in Bangladesh, the
demand for textiles is increasing rapidly. This presents an urgent need to dramatically increase
capacities in spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing, printing, and finishing sub-sectors. This
will require the adoption of the most modern and appropriate technology to ensure quality
products at competitive prices. The possibility of increased yarn production in Bangladesh is an
issue that has been looked into extensively by many researchers.

Executive Summary

China loses its competitiveness further, Bangladesh will emerge as the next RMG hot spot. With
Bangladesh having developed a strong position among European and US buyers, many
companies are already eager to evaluate the future potential. However, the lure of competitive
prices, available capacities, and supplier capabilities offered are being cautiously weighed
against a prevailing concern for political stability, infrastructure constraints and compliance
standards. This can in turn lead to significant development and production of textile and ancillary
support industries. Given the track record along with the CAGR growth rate of 14 percent,
Bangladesh has the potential to far exceed the target of USD 50 billion by 2021. Though
somewhat puzzling, Bangladesh's growth potential has been recognized by many reputed
analysts across the globe.
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Table of Content

Title Page Number

Introduction 05

Objective of the Study 05

Methodology 06

Limitations 06

Business trend of Garments Industry in Bangladesh 07-08

Working Environment 08-09

Competition with Other Countries 10-12

Data Findings 13

Recommendation 14-19
(Way to Improve Garments Sector of Bangladesh)
Conclusion 20

References 20
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Introduction

Bangladesh is the world’s second largest Readymade Garment (RMG) exporter, just behind
China. Country’s 81% of exports come from the RMG sector, and the textile and apparel sector
contributes around 20% to Bangladesh’s GDP. It employs around 20 million people in the
country and is the major driving force of the country’s economy.

Agriculture, as the case in India, has been the backbone of economy and chief source of income
for the people of Bangladesh, the country made of villages. Government wants to decrease
poverty by getting highest productivity from agriculture and achieve self-reliance in food
production. Apart from agriculture, the country is much concerned about the growth of export
division. Bangladesh have accelerated and changed her exports substantially from time to time.
After Bangladesh came into being, jute and tea were the most export-oriented industries. But
with the continual perils of flood, failing jute fiber prices and a considerable decline in world
demand, the role of the jute sector to the country’s economy has deteriorated. After that, focus
has been shifted to the function of production sector, especially in garment industry.

Objective of the Study

The ruling focus of this study identifies the pros and cons of “Future of garments industry of
Bangladesh.” Precisely the study attempts to attain the following objectives:

• To classify the problems and constraints faced by Garments industry of Bangladesh.

• To scrutinize the challenges faced by Garments industry of Bangladesh including political,
domestic, international and competitive challenges.
• To propose some recommendation to overcoming some of the challenged faced by
Garments industry of Bangladesh.
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Methodology

Data are collected from mainly secondary sources:

• Research articles
• BB Report
• ILO research publications
• Newspaper clips.
• Publishes article in journal.
• BLA 2006

In order to carry on this work and to find out the objectives that will be quantitative in nature,
descriptive research design has been tackled. Relevant and supporting secondary data have been
collected through.

Limitations

As this paper consisted of secondary data so there will be some limitations. To work with the
secondary data, we have faced with some information scarcities, literature gap, accurate data etc.
So, there must be a chance that information that we have provided could be wrong,
misinformation, misrepresentation. Again, some site was restricted despite all these limitations,
we have given the best of my efforts and tried to make the report as informative and as
comprehensive as possible.

There is high degree of variations in the available market statistics produced by different sources
which often put the report in a dilemma on determining the level of authenticity of the data
collected.
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Business trend of Garments Industry in Bangladesh

2020 is going to be a crucial year for the Bangladesh garments and textile industry. As the
industry is going through a transformation phase some major organizational changes are on the
card in the upcoming days. Starting in the late 1970s, expanding heavily in the 1980s and finally
booming in the 1990s, Ready Made Garments industry has created a success story for
Bangladesh. Turning up as a gigantic industry within a short span of time, RMG sector has
become the backbone to the economy of the country as the largest source of export earnings
(84%) and employment (20 million). Bangladesh RMG sector has a goal to achieve 50 Billion
export targets by year 2021 that will cover 8-10% of total apparel export of the world market.
Currently the country holds approximately, 7% of that with 34-billion-dollar export. However, at
current growth pace the target is not possible to achieve. The ready-made garment industry in
Bangladesh has been hard hit by COVID-19. Shortage of raw materials caused huge production
problem for the garments industry. Thousands of orders had been cancelled in the initial covid-
19 period.

Number of Garments: Garments factories registered under BGMEA is 4621 now. If we analyze
the trend of change in the no of factories, the number of new factories being added every year is
decreasing. There was a big drop in the number of industries in 2013-14 when accord and
alliance came into action. After that every year the on average around 75 new industries being
added in total. Furthermore, we have seen that around 200 industries have been shut down in the
recent times which indicated the newly added industries fully compliance and they are here to
stay. So, though the number of new industries every year is decreasing but the quality of the
newly launched industries is far better taking Bangladesh in the next level as a role model of
green industries and sustainable practices.

Number of workers: Another important thing to notice is the number of workers being stagnant
at 4 million for a few years now working directly in garments industries according to BGMEA. It
indicates that the total number of workers per production unit is not increasing rather may be in
the decreasing side. One explanation can be adoption of some semi-automatic processes in the
production line resulting in less manpower requirement.
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Market: The traditional market has been stable in the FY 2018-19 but in the last 6 months there
is a negative growth. Canada and the non-traditional markets registered highest growth at
22.44% and 21.77% respectively in the last FY 2018-19. But even these markets recorded a
negative growth in the last six months at -12.18% and -5.13% respectively. It will be very
difficult to off-set this negative row may be due to the corona virus epidemic in China. Many
export orders will be halted or delayed due to a seize in imports from China.

In the EU market Hungary, Cyprus, Portugal, Malta and Sweden registered highest growth,
whereas the bigger markets like Germany, UKI, Spain, France and Italy registered very low
growth.

Labor Force: Human resource has been always vital issue in the continuous development of the
textile and apparel sector. In the last decade the wage of the garments workers has been
increased six folds. Furthermore, the business operation costs in last decade has also increased
35-40%. In contrast, according to different authentic sources, the average price from the buyers
has been decreased by 3-4%. So, allover we have lost 35-40% price competitiveness in the
market. In this circumstance, the skill profile of the labor force has become a vital issue. The
industry now cannot afford unskilled human force in the industries. However, in terms of labor
wage Bangladesh is still a competitive place for the garment’s buyers

Working Environment
Age: Most of the workers are very young. The result shows that most of workers are aged in
between 22-25 years which is the about 42.22% of the total.

Gender: Maximum 42.22% workers are from 22-25 years old which create great empowerment
to RMG sector. This energetic worker just changes the development & they contribute greatly in
country’s GDP growth. In garment industry 66.66% workers are female where 33.33% workers
are male, which means garment industry empowered by women.

Working Hours of Workers: Working hour is a very important factor for every workers life.
Textiles & apparels sector is a sector where workers are doing their work each & every day
because it is directly related with physical production. If working hour is more than production is
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more. Table 5 shows 50 percent of worker’s working hours is 10 hours although standard
working hour is 8 per day.

Wages of the Workers: The government has published a gazette notification fixing Taka 8,000
as the minimum wage of garment workers. A Grade-7 worker will get Taka 4,100 in basic salary
apart from Taka 2,050 in house rent, Taka 600 for medical purposes, Taka 350 for transport and
Taka 950 as food subsidy.

Job Security: The garments workers have no job security yet. Any time without any reason they
may be suspend, demotion, transferred even sacked from the company. Though there is a clause
in the service rule that, the sacked employee should get at least one-month salary from the
company if he/she is sacked from the company without any cause (surplus, lack of works) but in
fact, the due salary is not given sometimes.

Safety of the Workers: Since 2013, three authorities (Bangladesh government, Accord,
Alliance) have started inspection the factories to identify major gaps to ensure a safe working
environment. So far, they have completed their first stage inspection programs.

Workers’ Rights: Amendment of labor Act, 2006 has dramatically changed the situation of
trade union registration in the RMG sector. Just after immediate of the amendment, at least 96
new trade unions were registered under the Bangladesh Department of Labor (ILO, 2014).
According to Sharif (2015), “Till 20 April 2015 more than 300 new trade unions have been
registered in the RMG sector”. In addition to this, many initiatives have been taken to promote
workers’ rights.

Compensation: Compensation can be monetary benefit for loss of income and health, or
temporary relocation of the job. Compensation is also important where a factory is closed
temporary or permanently. According to Accord, they compensated more than 7000 workers for
closing the hazardous factories. To support the victims of Rana Plaza incident “Rana Plaza Trust
Fund” has formed. To support the victims, it requires US 40 million. To the date, $19.4 million
has been donated by various organizations including foreign buyers
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Competition with Other Countries

Market Share: Bangladesh remains the 2nd largest apparel exporter in the world after China
according to the world trade organization data. The data said Bangladesh held on to its status in
the world FY 2018-2018 accounting for 6.5 percent share of the Market. In 2017 Bangladesh
exported garment items worth 29 billion, China remained the largest apparel supplier globally,
the value of exported clothing items from China last year was 158 billion. According to the
WTO Vietnam exported 27 billion worth of garment products in 2017 with its 5.9% market
share, and the India with its garment to exports of 18 billion in 2017 ranked fourth.

Market Share
35.00%

30.00%

25.00%

20.00%

15.00%

10.00%

5.00%

0.00%
India Bangladesh China Vietnam Turkey

In RMG sector China ranked 1st with 30.8%market share Bangladesh ranked 2nd with 6.8%
market share whereas our neighboring country India ranked 4th position with 3.5% and Vietnam
ranked 3rd with 6.2% market share.

President of Bangladesh garment manufacturers and exporters association said Bangladesh has a
bright future in apparel business, but we need to do a lot more homework. The buyers are
coming here with the bulk of work orders as the country’s image has now brighter. After the near
completion of factory remediation as per the recommendation by the accord and alliances.
According to the WTO Bangladesh remained the third largest clothing after the China while
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Vietnam, India and turkey ranked fourth fifth and sixth respectively. In 2019 there was an
opportunity for Bangladeshi apparel makers as the US China trade war forced global buyers to
reallocate the business and diversified sourcing destination. Asian markets such as India, China
and Japan have also contributed to the higher earnings Besides improvement in road and
highway airport and seaport in Chittagong for faster movement of goods and reducing the cost of
doing business.

Minimum Wages

The minimum wage in garment manufacturers USA 1864 dollar, Bangladesh 85 US dollar,
China 270 US dollar, our neighboring country India 255 dollar, Vietnam 248 dollar and Turkey
933 US dollar.

Bangladesh’s rival Vietnam’s RMG sector growing so fast

Production of high-end apparels is traditionally embedded in the economy and culture of

Vietnam. Bangladesh depends on five items such as men's and women's t-shirt, trouser, shirt,
jacket and sweater for export while Vietnam has diversified its product line. Only in a single
market - the US - Vietnam exports 10 types of products – women's knit shirts and blouses,
women's trousers (cotton), women's knit shirts and blouses (cotton), women's trousers, men's knit
shirts (cotton), dresses, men's trousers, men's knit shirts, men's trousers (cotton), and women's
coats.

➢ Introduction of Doi Moi policy and export trend: Vietnam launched a policy named Doi
Moi (economic rejuvenation) in 1986 to reform its economy through entering the free market
trade. The policy spurred rapid economic growth in the country. The country has free trade
agreements with the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Hong
Kong, Singapore, South Korea and China.
➢ Short lead time and infrastructure: Vietnam ranked 39th on the World Bank's Logistic
Performance Index 2018 while Bangladesh's position is far behind – 100th.Vietnam's lead
time is shorter because of its better infrastructure of 1,900 miles of coastline and 320 ports.
According to the World Economic Forum, Vietnam ranked 80th among 139 countries in the
quality of port infrastructure, with an average score of 3.80 on a scale of 1 to 7 between 2006
and 2018. Beside better infrastructure, Vietnam takes shorter lead time for skilled manpower,
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the capacity of production and geographical location – China, Hong Kong and Singapore are
its neighboring countries. Bangladesh, on the other hand, takes longer lead time for poor
shipment.
➢ Lower cost of labor: The lower labor cost reduces the production cost compared to the other
competitive sourcing countries in the global market though not lower than Bangladesh. But
Vietnam will increase its minimum wage by approximately 5.7 percent from January
2020.The wages will vary based on the living expenses and regional distance from the
workplace.
➢ Restricted competitiveness in domestic market: Vietnam has enacted a new competition
law in July this year that limits unfair competition among the Vietnamese and foreign
companies in the domestic market. Bangladesh also has a competition act but it has no
effective implementation
➢ Investing in producing raw materials: The Vietnamese government has already started
investing heavily in the development of the support industries. It has developed cotton
industry and also expanded the knitting sector. The production of input materials lowered the
cost and opened its door to the competitive market.
➢ Expansion of domestic market by attracting Foreign Direct Investment: Targeting the
young population, the domestic demand for apparel products in Vietnam is also growing.
With increased urbanization, growing employment and income; the Vietnamese people spend
the second-highest amount on clothing after food. Their domestic market is also attracting
investments from the major international brand.
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Data Findings
The domestic market demand of RMG is increasing with the increase in standard of living.
Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter with just 4.83 percent of total world export
after China with 37.35 percent of total world garment export. China has competitive advantage in
unit price through economies of scale and large production capacity, while Bangladesh is
competing with the advantage of cheap labor. Monthly wage of a RMG worker in Bangladesh is
only $65 compared to $300 in china.

China’s consistent rise in the living standard, more orientation to the high-tech expensive
investment in capital machineries has increased per unit cost of production. The increase in unit
price has made the Chinese apparel slightly unattractive and shifts the large apparel buyers from
china to other countries. Bangladesh could be the next destination of those potential buyers.
Moreover, Bangladesh is also diversifying through new market exploration. Countries in Far
East Asia like Japan, China, South Korea, and big markets such as India, South Africa, Russia,
Brazil, Mexico and Chile in terms of population can be lucrative opportunities for market
diversification.

• Compared to many competing countries, Bangladesh has an advantage of cheap labor,

which may attract foreign buyers.
• The EU and USA companies have plans to rise their current sourcing of apparels from
Bangladesh, from 20 percent to 25-31 percent by 2020 from Bangladesh.
• Giant Swedish retailer, H&M has decided to double its apparel volume to US$ 3 billion
from Bangladesh during next 5 years.
• Estimated global apparel demand is US$ 650 billion by 2020. China’s domestic RMG
Market is worth of $310 billion. Bangladesh has a big room to explore there.
• Dhaka Apparel Summit 2014 has envisioned an ambitious target of US$50 billion RMG
export by 2021 that may be realized if challenges are properly addressed.
• More than 30 years of history and experience of garments manufacturing, large Labor
force still comparatively in-expensive compared to competitors, resilient and ambitious
young entrepreneur, huge production capacity, highest number of green industries and a
positive sustainability, support of Government as a major export sector.
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Recommendation

Way to Improve Garments Sector of Bangladesh

Increase Welfare facilities and benefits

➢ Drinking water

Drinking water is essential for all workers; if this is not provided, they become thirsty and
gradually dehydrated. This greatly increases fatigue and lowers productivity, especially in a hot
environment. Place water containers near each group of workers or provide taps or fountains
with clean water in a central place this will minimize the time lost in going to get a drink.
However, drinking water should not be placed in washrooms or toilets, near dangerous machines
or other hazards, nor in places where it can be contaminated by dust, chemicals or other
substances.

➢ Be ready for emergencies

Accidents can happen even if proper preventive measures are installed; so, always be prepared
for emergencies, like cuts and bruises, eye injuries, burns, poisoning and electric shocks. Every
enterprise, therefore, has to maintain a well-stocked first-aid box and assign at least one person
from every shift to handle emergencies. First-aid boxes should be clearly marked and located so
that they are readily accessible in an emergency. They should not be more than 100 meters away
from any place on the work site.

➢ Make sure that rest means recovery

A good rest area also helps to reduce fatigue. This will hasten the recovery of workers from
fatigue and enable continued productive work. Getting away from a noisy, polluted or isolated
workstation helps them to relax and recover from fatigue. Rest areas should therefore be away
from the workstation and free from disturbances. Avoid bright sunlight: the eyes need to rest as
well as the body. Benches and a place to lie down should be provided. This is an effective way to
recover one's energy.
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➢ Eating areas

Some smaller enterprises may not have the capital to provide a canteen immediately. The first
low-cost step would be to provide an eating place or room in which the workers can eat their
own packed lunch or food bought from vendors. This lunchroom could include a small area
where workers can prepare drinks or heat their food. It should be situated away from the
workstations to avoid any contact with dirt, dust or dangerous substances used during the work
process and should be as comfortable as possible to enable workers to relax during meal-breaks.

➢ Canteens

Establishing a proper canteen service is the best way of encouraging workers to eat sufficient
nutritious food during a reasonable short break from work. It may not be feasible for workers to
return home for meals due to distances involved, the high cost of transport, lack of commuting
facilities or simply because the meal break is not long enough.

➢ Health facilities
• Arrange regular visits to your enterprise by a doctor or nurse provide treatment at a
local hospital or clinic if a worker
• Gets sick or has an accident
• Assist in establishing a community health service near the workplace
• Grant loans or salary advances to workers to help meet
• Medical costs
• Provide health insurance for all workers, or encourage
• Workers to join private insurance schemes, by contributing to the premiums.
➢ Transport facilities

Getting to and from the workplace can sometimes be difficult, lengthy and tiring. This, in turn,
can cause fatigue, anxiety and financial hardship for the workers. It can result in undue lateness,
increased worker absenteeism, high labor turnover and, consequently, in declining efficiency of
the enterprise.
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➢ Child-care facilities

Many employers find that working mothers are especially committed and efficient workers, but
they often need help with the problem of caring for their children. A clean room, preferably with
access to an enclosed space outside, is the main thing you need. A few items of simple furniture
and toys help. Children should not be allowed inside the factory. Sewing, cutting and packing
machines, irons and movable carts represent a major hazard for them. Dust or fibers in the air are
especially dangerous for the young.

Maintain Efficient materials storage and handling

➢ Avoid placing materials on the floor.

➢ Gain productive space by introducing multi-level racks.
➢ Provide a place for each tool and work item.
➢ The more you use it, the closer it should be.
➢ Use mobile storage.
➢ Don't lift loads higher than necessary.
➢ Move materials and perform tasks at working heights.
➢ Make lifting more efficient and safer.

Productive machine safety, maintenance and environmental control

➢ Machine safety

All machines in the garment industry can be potentially dangerous when they are misused. You
can eliminate, control or minimize the risk of accidents by installing guards on unprotected
machinery, bandies in the cutting room. Workers should wear personal protective equipment and
ALL cutters should wear chain-mail gloves.
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➢ Purchase safe machines

Manufacturers normally produce safe machines and equipment, with built-in guards and safety
features. When a new machine is ordered, care should be taken to check that the machine is
equipped with guards and that all safety features are in order.

➢ Maintain machines properly

A poorly maintained machine can be inefficient, if not dangerous. It will also have frequent
breakdowns and quality problems. Proper maintenance is not lost production time; it is an
investment for higher productivity and lower repair costs.

➢ Teach workers to troubleshoot common machine problems

In many cases machine problems are due to the worker not having received correct training in
basic machine maintenance. This causes problems which have to be rectified by a qualified
mechanic/technician. On-the-job training sessions may be organized for beginners as part of their
training period. Enlist the help of senior operators with teaching skills.

➢ Make local ventilation cost-effective

Local ventilation should only be considered as a means of reducing chemical hazards when other
means have failed. There are cost-effective ways of improving ventilation.

Effective work organization

➢ Eliminate extra tasks and operations

Additional tasks and operations are those that do not add value to the product or service. These
incur costs for the enterprise but are not paid by the customers. You can eliminate or rearrange
tasks by:

• Introducing changes into the design of the product

• Switching to new production methods
• Performing a number of tasks in one operation
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➢ Defeat monotony to keep workers alert and productive

• Introduce frequent changes in tasks to stimulate the worker's attention.
• Rotate workers to different workstations.
• Allow frequent short breaks

➢ Provide adequate training and retraining

Adequate integration and training of new workers is essential to ensure best production practices,
proper use of machinery, control of waste, safety and health, and commitment. All these will
lead to consistent quality production and higher productivity. Your training strategy should be
designed to allow workers to learn quickly and become adapted to both the culture and the
technology of your enterprise. Training stages should include induction training (company
awareness), basic training (quality requirements) and advance training (quality, dexterity skills).

➢ Choose the most appropriate layout

One of the important things to realize when choosing or designing a layout is that any design will
have a limited lifetime. This is due to a number of factors:

➢ style changes and quantities

➢ variations in workers' performances
➢ shortage of work
➢ skill shortage

Ensuring sustainable improvements

➢ Develop a complete solution

If you have areas in your workplace which cause problems or bottlenecks, these are probably the
result of a combination of factors. For many improvements you may need to make several
changes at the same time in order to meet the objective you have set. Use the whole checklists to
look for ways of achieving a complete solution to your problem.
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➢ Mobile workers support

If you make a worker's job more difficult, the result will be lower productivity and resentment,
not higher productivity and appreciation. Your improvements are intended to build loyalty and
motivation and to be fully effective you need to be sure that the workers understand how they
will benefit. This requires taking a look from the worker's point of view at the impact on job
security, pay, level of responsibility, type of supervision, difficulty or ease of work, etc. The
workers will certainly be thinking about these things.

➢ Make Improvement which will last

Even simple and immediately productive ideas are not always followed. Old habits are strong,
and they do not die easily. There are two basic strategies which help to make sure that
improvements are smoothly introduced, effectively implemented and lasting.

• Change people's habits and behavior

• Build the change into equipment and facilities.

More constructive working evolvement

➢ Provide more information about your enterprise.

➢ Create conditions for participation.
➢ Let the workers assess the workplace and express their ideas.
➢ Implement a small change.
➢ Set up a core group of workers.
➢ Involve all workers.
➢ Provide appropriate training.
➢ Enrich workers' jobs.
➢ Organize workers in teams.
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Conclusion

Bangladesh textile and apparel industry are standing at a crossroad facing difficult challenges.
But this is also true that opportunity resides at the opposite of the challenges. It’s a high time for
the industry take appropriate steps to step over the hurdles and avail the opportunities in offering
in plenty in the global market. Still Bangladesh is regarded as one of the best choices for most of
the buyers as safe and secure source of readymade garments. And as our capability of designing
and product development improves industry will start making more value-added products, the
trend of which is already evident. Today Bangladesh is the home of highest number of green
factories which adds to our positive image as a sustainable partner of global business. And most
importantly, non-compliance factories are gradually pushed out of the market which is also a
good sign in the longer run. We need better factories, not a lot of factories. This comprehensive
study of the review and outlook has been aimed to help our valued readers to have a proper
glimpse of the industry conveniently so that it helps them visualizing their future plans. Textile
Focus team hopes for the best and continues to work as a sustainable development partner of the
garments and textile industry hand to hand.

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