THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCHOLARS (IUS)

Dept. of Business Administration

Final Examination, Fall Semester-2019
Program: BBA (Credit Transfer)

Course Code & Title: HRM-501: HRM Information System Time: 2 Hours
Course Instructor: Md. Sazib Molla Full Marks: 40
(N.B. Answer all questions. Figures in the right margin indicate full marks i.e. 10 marks per question.
Different parts of each question must be placed sequentially. Start each answer from fresh sheet)

Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter in the world, after China. The market share of Bangladesh,
in the $503 billion global garment items is 5.1 percent, according to data from the International Trade
Statistics of the World Bank in 2014.
China’s market share is 38.6 percent and Vietnam and India share 3.7 percent. However, China has been
losing its market share mainly due to higher cost of production and shortage of skilled workforce in China.
Bangladesh is one of the major beneficiary countries of shifting work orders from China.
Following such shift, Bangladesh’s export of garment items is on the rise as the global apparel retail giants
are also increasing the volume of work orders for quality garment at competitive prices.
Bangladesh exported garment items worth $25.50 billion in 2014-15 fiscal and the earning from garment
export during first 11 months (July-May) of the current fiscal year is $25.08 billion.
Only five items covered 78.59 percent or $20.04 billion of the total garment export earnings at $25.50
billion in 2014-15 fiscal. The five items include shirts, trousers, jackets and sweaters.
The target for the fiscal was set at $27.37 billion. Almost all major retailers has been increasing their volume
of work orders in Bangladesh.
Currently, the Swedish retail giant H&M is the largest apparel buying company from Bangladesh which
purchases nearly $3billion in a year. The H&M mainly purchases T-shirts, cotton trousers both for males
and females, woven shirts, jackets and sweaters.
The Spanish retailer Inditex buys nearly $1.5 billion worth of women’s wear and trousers and under its
different brands like Zara, Lefties and Bershka. C&A purchases more than $800 million in a year.
Few years ago, the German’s posh brand Hugo Boss started sourcing from Bangladesh from limited number
of very compliant garment factories.
Other important retailers those which source nearly $1 billion worth of garment items each from Bangladesh
include Tesco, M&S, Gap, Nike, VF Asia, Levi’s and Adidas.

Questions to answer:

1. Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter in the world, after China. How have [10]
Bangladesh achieved this position?
2. Which countries are the main importers of the Bangladeshi garment items? [10]
3. What are the main problems of garments business in Bangladesh now-a-days? [10]
4. Suppose, You are the Prime Minister of Bangladesh then what measures & actions you will [10]
take to furnish the garments sectors of Bangladesh?

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