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Employee Relations With Top Level Management in Bangladeshi Garments Sector: an Empirical Study

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Employee relations are based on an underlying philosophy supported by necessary attitudes and skills.Here it covers the employment relationship with top level management in garments sector, which determine an employer and employee's mutual obligations and expectation towards each other.Every individual at the workplace shares a certain relationship with fellow workers.Human beings are not machines who can start working just at the push of a mere button.They need people to talk to, discuss ideas with each other and share their happiness and sorrows.An individual cannot work alone, workers needs people around.If the organization is all empty, will not feel like sitting there and working.An isolated environment demotivates an individual and spreads negativity around.It is essential that people are comfortable with each other and work together as a single unit towards a common goal.However, recent incident of garments sector is happening due to the conflict relation between management and workers reason of low compensation.Moreover, the present study is designed to unearth the causes of employee relation in garments sector of Bangladesh.The major causes of labor relation with top level management have been explored from the responses of the respondents.Besides, the study also identified causes of poor participation in decision making, absence of willingness of the management, absence of labor union activities, lack of workforce diversity, irregularities in payment, low wage, mistreatment of the workers by managers/officers, rumor, conspiracy, non-execution of labor laws, unruly nature of the workers and political intervention.Furthermore, this researcher suggested most of the employee relations factors have to be improved in the Bangladeshi garments sector for taking competitive advantage in world market.

Source: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences

DOI: 10.18551/rjoas.2017-03.12

Authors: A. Taslim, N. Julker, R. Islam, K.R. Prodip

Institutions: Prince of Songkla University, Gopalganj Science and Technology University, Bangladesh University of Professionals

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering and Design Patterns

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $28