Garment Industry In Bangladesh Research Articles

Creating a Long-Term Safe Workplace in Garment Industry of Bangladesh: A Review

Creating a Long-Term Safe Workplace in Garment Industry of Bangladesh: A Review

The Impact of Corporate Governance on Stock Performance: Evidence from Bangladesh

Purpose: This explanatory study aims to examine the compliance status of corporate governance mechanisms and their effect on stock performance of textile industry in Bangladesh. Methodology: Fifty annual reports of listed textile companies for the year 2019 have been taken as the sample to find the empirical result of this study. The statistics for description and interpretation of cross-sectional data have been used to explore and examine the causal relationship among variables under study. Findings: From the statistical analysis of governance variables, it is seen that 30% of the sample company have a minimum (5) member in the Board, whereas only 2% companies have more than 10 directors. Moreover, five companies having negative and low return on asset (ROA) do not comply with the governance code provision regarding independent directors. In addition to these, 18% companies have no female director on the Board and are violating the Board diversity policy of corporate governance. This study shows a significant and positive association between the gender diversity and the stock performance, which supports the lens of stakeholder and resource dependency theories and proves that the presence of female directors is an effective mechanism to protect the interest of outside resource providers and. But it infers that the presence of the independent director negatively affects the dependent variable, stock performance that is also statistically significant. Originality: The main value of the study is that it is the first paper in Bangladesh, which has considered the stock price change as proxy for stock performance as per author best knowledge. Practical Implications: The outcome of the paper is most likely to benefit the top managements and directors in formulating a suitable Board dimension, and policy makers in regulating the capital market in Bangladesh for making more informative decisions towards improving their surveillance and monitory systems and ensuring the compliance level of issuer. Research Limitations: This is cross-sectional study, which is limited to textile companies and does not consider primary data.

Scholarly Revisit the Role of Worker Participation Committee: Evidence from the Ready-Made Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Purpose– The prime objective of this article is to revisit the role of Workers Participation Committee (WPC) and discover how and where WPC has been playing an active role in the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Industry in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach– This study has extensively reviewed the journal articles, documents prepared by international organizations and thesis works of researchers that have been published in the reputed journals and online sources. Findings– This study finds that WPC has active roles to play in the issues related to labor standards and the issues related to labor rights. Moreover, WPC has the ability to establish mutual trust and harmonious relationship between the workers and employers by resolving industrial dispute. Research limitations- This is a conceptual paper which suffers to observe the reality from the ground. This study will invoke many scholars to conduct empirical studies in the future to evaluate the reality of the functions that WPC can play independently at the organizational level in Bangladesh. Practical implications– This study contributes significantly to the existing literature of WPC, especially in the RMG industry. This study also has implication as the future reference to conduct empirical assessment in terms of WPC’s roles and legislative reformation. Originality/value– As far as originality is concerned, very few research effort has been made before to revisit the role of WPC in the RMG industry in Bangladesh.

Scholarly Revisit the Role of Worker Participation Committee: Evidence from the Ready-Made Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Purpose– The prime objective of this article is to revisit the role of Workers Participation Committee (WPC) and discover how and where WPC has been playing an active role in the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Industry in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach– This study has extensively reviewed the journal articles, documents prepared by international organizations and thesis works of researchers that have been published in the reputed journals and online sources. Findings– This study finds that WPC has active roles to play in the issues related to labor standards and the issues related to labor rights. Moreover, WPC has the ability to establish mutual trust and harmonious relationship between the workers and employers by resolving industrial dispute. Research limitations- This is a conceptual paper which suffers to observe the reality from the ground. This study will invoke many scholars to conduct empirical studies in the future to evaluate the reality of the functions that WPC can play independently at the organizational level in Bangladesh. Practical implications– This study contributes significantly to the existing literature of WPC, especially in the RMG industry. This study also has implication as the future reference to conduct empirical assessment in terms of WPC’s roles and legislative reformation. Originality/value– As far as originality is concerned, very few research effort has been made before to revisit the role of WPC in the RMG industry in Bangladesh.

Providing Antenatal Care Facility is the Most Effective Way to Improve Nutritional Knowledge of Mothers Working in the Ready-Made Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Providing Antenatal Care Facility is the Most Effective Way to Improve Nutritional Knowledge of Mothers Working in the Ready-Made Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Impact of Supply Chain Management Tools on Customer Satisfaction: A Study on Readymade Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Impact of Supply Chain Management Tools on Customer Satisfaction: A Study on Readymade Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Effects of leadership styles and motivational factors on worker engagement: an empirical study on the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh

This study inspects the effects of motivational factors (intrinsic and extrinsic) and leadership styles (transformational and transactional) on worker engagement in the ready-made garments industry of Bangladesh. The paper is based on Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory. The study adopted a quantitative technique and used SPSS to analyse the data assembled from a valid sample of 387 workers in Bangladesh's ready-made garments industry. The findings show that extrinsic motivational factors positively correlate with worker engagement more than intrinsic motivational factors. Consequently, transformational leadership is positively associated with worker engagement more than transactional leadership among the workers in the ready-made garments industry of Bangladesh. In conclusion, it is suggested that the industry should focus more on the transformational leadership style compared to the transactional leadership style and workers have to be motivated to increase productivity in this specific industry.

Worker Satisfaction in Health, Hygiene and Safety Measures Undertaken by the Readymade Garments Industry of Bangladesh: A Case Study on Gazipur

Purpose: The main purpose of the study is to explore the effects of health, hygiene and safety measures on worker satisfaction in readymade garments sector in Gazipur district of Bangladesh. Methodology: Based on review of literatures and collection of 260 usable responses the study is conducted by partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method using Smart PLS 3.0. Findings: The findings of the study have revealed that health and hygiene measures significantly influence workers’ satisfaction towards readymade garments sector in Bangladesh. However, the study results show that safety measures insignificantly influence the workers" satisfaction towards garment Sector in Bangladesh. Practical implications: The study might be useful for garment industry operators in formulating strategies of improving health and Hygiene measures, and safety measures to improve workers' satisfaction in garment sector in Bangladesh. Originality: The study has uniquely presented a case comprising the factors helping devising a strategy for industry professionals through measuring the integrated effects of health, hygiene and safety measures on workers’ satisfaction of readymade garment sector in Bangladesh.

Potential Coping Strategies to the Impact of COVID-19 on Global Supply Chain——With the Case of Bangladesh Garment Industry

COVID-19 has caused lots damage to human’s health and world economy. To come up with potential coping strategies to the impact COVID-19 causes on global supply chains, this research report uses the case of Bangladesh garment industry and analyses 235 answers to the questionnaire. By analysing the relationship between CSR and consumers’ purchase behaviour, gender and identity difference in CSR perception and legal restriction to CSR, the potential coping strategies can be concluded as: each section in global supply chain should pay attention to CSR and consumers’ purchase behaviour form various perspectives like genders and occupations; governments should step in and make laws to set legal restrictions on the application of CSR.

Bangladesh RMG Supply Chain Vulnerabilities To Disruption Beyond Covid-19

With the recent outbreak of Covid-19, the fragility of the global SC has been revealed. Significant disruption from both the demand and supply side has jolted the garment industry of Bangladesh. This paper aims to foster a more explicit understanding of the disruption vulnerability factors of the Bangladesh RMG SC beyond Covid-19. To achieve this aim, an exploratory study methodology is used by extensive literature review. Analysis revealed that Bangladesh RMG SC is vulnerable to hazard, strategic, financial, operational, infrastructural, and demand and supply factors. Natural calamities, infrastructural collusions, labor and political unrest, globally intensified competition, non-compliance issues, high dependency on imported materials, lack of product, and market diversification can lead Bangladesh RMG SC to disruptive events. The analysis of this study will help factory owners, industrial managers, and designated authorities to identify vulnerabilities associated with the Bangladesh RMG SC and take measures to reduce the vulnerabilities to disruption.

Quality intervention, supplier performance and buyer–supplier relationships: evidence from the garment industry

PurposeThis study investigates the impact of a buyer-assisted quality intervention on suppliers' quality performance and buyer–supplier relational dynamics in the garment industry.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a multiple-embedded case study following a qualitative research approach. The study used data from buyer-assisted quality interventions in sewing lines of four garment supplier factories. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews of buyer's representatives at their office and senior managers, line inspectors, supervisors and workers in supplier factories. In addition, data related to product quality was obtained from quality check sheets and observations on the shop floor. Data were analysed using qualitative data analysis techniques.FindingsThis study demonstrates that a buyer-assisted quality intervention improves product quality performance by reducing quality defects in targeted garment products resulting in improved buyer–supplier relationships. Moreover, this study identifies the lack of a systematic approach in quality control as a key reason for poor product quality.Research limitations/implicationsThe study adds knowledge to the literature on quality improvement and buyer–supplier relationships by analysing buyer-assisted quality interventions in the garment industry in Bangladesh. The study demonstrates that buyer's assistance and adopting a systematic approach in quality control can significantly improve product quality in the garment industry.Practical implicationsThis research can help the quality assurance managers in buyer and supplier firms understand the significance of quality interventions and systematic quality control approach to decrease product quality defects and ensure smooth buyer–supplier relationships.Originality/valueThe study adds new knowledge on the link between buyer-assisted quality interventions, systematic quality control and product quality in garments factories in Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh garment industry and the global supply chain. Choices and constraints of management, ShahidurRahman, London, Routledge, 18 June 2021, 1st digital edition, 170 pages, B/W Illustrations, £33.29, 9781003153238

The Bangladesh garment industry and the global supply chain. Choices and constraints of management, ShahidurRahman, London, Routledge, 18 June 2021, 1st digital edition, 170 pages, B/W Illustrations, £33.29, 9781003153238

Effects of Green Human Resource Management on Employee Green Behavior: Moderating Role of Employee Environmental Knowledge

The study was conducted with an objective of measuring the effects of green human resource management (green HRM) practices on employee on-the-job and off-the-job green behavior within the context of garments industry in Bangladesh. Moreover, the study tested the moderating effects of employee environmental knowledge on the relationship between green HRM practices and employee on-the-job and off–the-job green behavior. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted in order to collect data from the participants. Two hundred and seventy employees working at the managerial level of garments factories in Bangladesh participated in the survey. Moderated regression analysis was employed to test the proposed research model. The study findings revealed that green HRM practices positively and significantly influenced employee on-the-job and off-the-job green behavior. This findings suggest that employee green behavior displayed both inside and outside the organization stem from the learnings and experiences inside the organization. Employee environmental knowledge was also found to moderate the effects of green HRM practices on employee on-the-job and off-the-job green behavior indicating that green HRM effects are stronger in case of environmentally concerned employees. The study findings provide HR professionals and policy makers with the guidance regarding the promotion of employee green behavior for improving environmental performance.

Correction to: Supplier Internationalization Through Upgrading in Global Supply Chain: Evidence from the Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Correction to: Supplier Internationalization Through Upgrading in Global Supply Chain: Evidence from the Garments Industry of Bangladesh

EFFECTS OF SELECTED COMPANY-SPECIFIC VARIABLES IN THE DETERMINATION OF COMPANY LEVERAGE: EVIDENCE FROM TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF BANGLADESH

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of profitability, liquidity, size, tangibility, and asset turnover on the leverage of the textile industry of Bangladesh. This paper analyzed 20 companies out of 56 companies listed in the Dhaka Stock Exchange. The data set is for the periods from 2016 to 2019. To find the effects on the dependent variable, the Fixed Effects Model has been used which has been selected using the Hausman test. To test heteroskedasticity, the Breusch-Pagan heteroskedasticity test has been used. The study found size, profitability, and tangibility having a significant effect. While size and tangibility have a positive impact on leverage, profitability has a negative impact. The findings are diversified in nature. The results are not all consistent with the previous studies conducted in different developing countries. So, the policymakers should have in-depth insights while making decisions.

Sustaining the Environment: A case study of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh

Introduction: Garment industry is one of the leading manufacturing sectors and plays a significant role in improving social, financial impact, building employment and exporting in developed economies in Bangladesh. Nevertheless, textiles are accused of being one of the most genetically dangerous industries, especially to the environment because it also produces waste, not just for clothing production and use. Thus, many scholars have recognized how important it is to explore a better environment for effective utilization in these sectors. Objective: This review paper explores the Garment industry's sustainability environment's evolution and examined how its Management can play a pioneering role in staying so long. Method: This review paper involved with secondary data which are collected from journal, proceedings, books and social media using the keywords of “garment industry” and “sustainable waste management and strategies in the garments industry”. Articles with key words in its titles or abstract were selected. This was done for articles published mainly in 2015-2020. Results: In mitigating its adverse environmental impacts, the textile company has made many measures to counter it. Each of these measures is the recycling and replication of waste fibers. Recycling methods may be used with thermal and biological techniques. Textile processing improves sustainable health and decreases the market for technical textiles, eliminates waste requirements, reduces energy demand and water emissions. Conclusion: Sustainable Waste Management and Strategies is very crucial in the garments Industry. Thus, advertising plans and procedures must improve consumer loyalty and encourage manufacturers' use of recycled waste in new products.

The Interrelation Between Textile Engineering Graduates’ Results And Their Job Performance In Textile Industry Of Bangladesh

It has been a long that educators, employers, and researchers are trying to relate the university grades and job performance of graduates to improve the quality of teaching and make recruitment easy. However, a concrete conclusion is yet to achieve. In the current study, attempts were made to correlate the relationship between the grades obtained by the textile graduates of a university and their performance in the textile industries in Bangladesh using the Likert scale. Twenty dimensions of quality were identified and corresponding graduates’ competence in these dimensions were evaluated and a relation was made with the grades obtained by the graduates. It was found that students with excellent academic results showed their excellence in the majority of the dimensions of quality over the students with average and poor results. Students with average and poor results also showed their excellence for few quality dimensions and no relation could be proposed. From this study, the authors concluded that, in general, the graduates' job performance was highly related to the GPA obtained by the graduates of that university.

Supplier Internationalization Through Upgrading in Global Supply Chain: Evidence from the Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Supplier Internationalization Through Upgrading in Global Supply Chain: Evidence from the Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Impact of Organizational Practices on Perceived Work-life Balance of Mid-level Employees at Garments Industry in Bangladesh: A Preliminary Study

One of the most all-time contemporary issues of the RMG sector in Bangladesh is employee dissatisfaction due to the less scope of work-life balance of the workforce although the government and the foreign buyers are being focused on securing compliances regarding the issue in recent years to make the entire workforce’s work-life smoothen. It is unfortunate that the organizations are focusing only on the low-cost employees such as workers and entry-level employees regarding this issue and are paying little attention to the mid-level workforce, who are playing the role as a pillar of managing the whole practices of the organization. As a result, job dissatisfaction among mid-level officials is heightening rapidly. The study worked on exploring this issue. The study has been conducted on 166 mid-level officials of the different RMG organizations from Dhaka, Gazipur, Savar, and Narayangonj. A close-ended questionnaire was prepared to collect the primary data and published journal articles and conference papers are the sources of secondary data collection. IBM SPSS 20.0 software has been used to analyze the collected data and standard multiple regression analysis has been done to pick the results. The results of this study highlight that physical & mental stress highly impacts the employee’s personal satisfaction whilst organizational environment have high impact on employee’s workplace satisfaction and physical & mental stress, work hour, and organizational environment is impacting significantly the employee’s organizational commitment as well. Besides, the study also reflects those other organizational practices relating to continuous work after office hour, compressed weekend, work-family climate, and work from home also impact the employee’s work-life balance whereas teleworking and leave and holiday consumption practices do not impact significantly

Isolation and Identification of Natural Colorant Producing Soil-Borne Aspergillus niger from Bangladesh and Extraction of the Pigment.

Natural colorants have been used in several ways throughout human history, such as in food, dyes, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and many other products. The study aimed to isolate the natural colorant-producing filamentous fungi Aspergillus niger from soil and extract pigments for its potential use specially for food production. Fourteen soil samples were collected from Madhupur National Park at Madhupur Upazila in the Mymensingh district, Bangladesh. The Aspergillus niger was isolated and identified from the soil samples by following conventional mycological methods (cultural and morphological characteristics), followed by confirmatory identification by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of conserved sequences of ITS1 ribosomal DNA using specific oligonucleotide primers. This was followed by genus- and species-specific primers targeting Aspergillus niger with an amplicon size of 521 and 310 bp, respectively. For pigment production, a mass culture of Aspergillus niger was conducted in Sabouraud dextrose broth in shaking conditions for seven days. The biomass was subjected to extraction of the pigments following an ethanol-based extraction method and concentrated using a rotary evaporator. Aspergillus niger could be isolated from three samples. The yield of extracted brown pigment from Aspergillus niger was 0.75% (w/v). Spectroscopic analysis of the pigments was carried out using a UV–VIS spectrophotometer. An in vivo experiment was conducted with mice to assess the toxicity of the pigments. From the colorimetric and sensory evaluations, pigment-supplemented products (cookies and lemon juice) were found to be more acceptable than the control products. This could be the first attempt to use Aspergillus niger extracted pigment from soil samples in food products in Bangladesh, but for successful food production, the food colorants must be approved by a responsible authority, e.g., the FDA or the BSTI. Moreover, fungal pigments could be used in the emerging fields of the food and textile industries in Bangladesh.