Exploring the Effectiveness of Training and Development in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh

Purpose: There are 7.02 thousand ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh where there are over 5.017 million workers in these garment factories and 55.57 percent of the workers are women. These workers are the key forces of a garment factory. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of training and development on garment workers in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh. For understanding the aim of this study, three goals are developed and these focused particularly on investigating the meaning and importance of training, examining the methods are used to develop employee’s skills and finally evaluating the influence of skill development training on employee performance. This conceptual paper also aims at studying the influence of skill development training on employee performance and to provide suggestion as to how a garment can improve its employee performance through effective training programs. Materials and Methods: The study is based on some garments industry operating in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The quantitative approach of the data collection are adopted using a questionnaire comprising of some structured questions distributed to 170 respondents between the garments industries of HA-MEEM Group: (1) HA-MEEM Denim Ltd., Mawna, Dhaka. (2) That’s It Fashion Ltd, Gazipur. (3) That’s IT Knit Wear Ltd, Ashulia, Dhaka. Findings: The results obtained indicate that training and development have a clear positive effect on the performance of employees. The results of the study can be useful to human resource managers, human resource policy makers, as well as government and academic institutions. This research has been found that strong relationship exists between employee training and development with employees’ performance. The results reveal that the more the employees get training, the more efficient their level of performance would be. Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: It is recommended that more diversified training and developing programs need to be arranged at a regular interval for enhancing employee performance.