Independent University, Bangladesh

Course: MBA515-2(Legal & Ethical Issues in Business)

Submitted by:

Name ID
Md.Zahid Hossen 2130919

Submitted to:

Dr. Md. Anowar Hossain Bhuiyan

Date of submission: 18 March 2022

Employee Participation in the RMG
Sector of Bangladesh
Introduction
The ready-made garment industry is a mainstay of this economic success story.at present
Bangladesh is one of the largest garments exporters, with the RMG sector accounting for 84
percent of Bangladesh's exports. Now a days our RMG sector contribute to our country
economy. Almost 80% of Bangladesh's total export earnings comes from this sector. In the last
year 2020-21, Bangladesh earned 31.45 billion USD from RMG exports. Almost 5 million
employees are engaged in RMG sector and they contribute greatly to our national economy.
There is different part in RMG sector. Most important is participation. Participation is the
mental and emotional involvement with the organization responsibilities that encourages them
to contribute to group task and share responsibility for them. There are three different
important ideas regarding participation in decision making-involvement, contribution and
responsibility. Firstly, participation means involvement each of everything in RMG sector. And
another concept in participation is that it motivates and encourage people to contribute in
organization. They are empowered to release their own resources and creativity to achieve the
objectives of the organization. Participation improves motivation by helping employees
understand their paths towards goals. Finally, participation encourages people to accept
responsibility for their group activities in organization. It is social processes by employee
participation which people become self-involved in an organization and want to see it work
successfully.

Employee Participation is important for RMG Sector of Bangladesh because Employee

Participation influence on different factors. Basically, Employee participation is a process in
which employees take control of their work and its conditions by incorporating their
involvement in decisions regarding their work. In this sector employees share decision-making
power regarding their tasks with their superiors.

Participation can have significant effects on performance and motivation. Participate practices
may provide power opportunities earlier to minority workers in an increasingly diverse
workforce, since such workers need not wait until reaching higher organizational levels. It also
helps to satisfy the awakening employee need for meaning and fulfillment at work.
Participation brings higher output and a better quality of output. It tends to improve motivation
because employees feel more accepted and involved in the situation. Turnover and absences
could also be reduced if the workers feel that they need a far better place to figure. Employee
motivation is that the level of energy, communication and creativity that a company’s workers
bring back their jobs. One approach to employee motivation has been to look at, add-ins to an
individual’s job because the primary factors in improving performance.

Problem in RMG sector

We know that RMG sectors are important for national economy but we find out lots of problem
in this sector. Such as lack of proper employee participation in decision making and motivation.
Many organizations did not focus on employee value or did not maintain employee
participation in RMG sector. IN that case there are maintain distance between employee and
management. For this problem our RMG sector faces a number of difficulties. A good number
of research works have been done in different fields of RMG sector. But unfortunately, few
studies have been conducted to find out about the correlation among decision making,
motivation and performance. For this reason, this study tries to assess the present situation of
worker participation and motivation system of RMG sector in Bangladesh. The study also
identifies the relationship between worker participation, motivation and performance.

Employee participation influence in different factors In RMG

Sector:
Employee participation has an important role for influence in decision making for effectiveness
in RMG sector. If employee participation in decision making then the employee will feel that
they are valued in this sector. Employee can provide necessary suggestions and guidelines to
the organization for attaining its goal. Employee can provide different type of contribution for
organization development such as making decisions, solving problems, designing and
implementation this sector changes. Employees are committed about their task and to the
desired goals of the organization if employee are engaged in decision making and goal setting
by exercising their self-control activities. They always seek and accept their responsibility to
involve them in decision making process through intellectual, emotional and physical effort.
Employee Participation helps to deduction the conflict and reduce differences between the
employees and the management in RMG sector in Bangladesh. If importance is given to the
employees in decision making, the cost of control also becomes least. So, the involvement of
employees in decision making process has been considered important in increasing the
productivity of an organization. Employee participation in workplace decision making is
essential to motivate the employees. Broad participation in decision making ensures high
performance by motivated employees. This participative process increases capacity of
employees in problem solving and commitment to the organization’s success. The underlying
logic is that by involving workers in those decisions that affect them and by increasing their
autonomy and control over their work, employees can be made more motivated and more
committed to the organization, more productive and more satisfied with their jobs. Giving
employees’ decision-making authority increases their control over the tasks for which they are
held responsible for. Participation tends to improve motivation because employees feel more
accepted and involved in the situation. Their self-esteem, job satisfaction and co-operation with
management also may improve. So, employee participation in management, an important part
of human relations, is deemed to be an important tool to boost up their motivation.

Recommendation
Employee participation is a very important part of operating for the future enterprise in RMG
sector. It gives the employee an opportunity to express their viewpoints about action.
Participating in goal setting, the employees can play a vital role in achieving business target.
Workers can select their work schedules which ensure workforce diversity in RMG sector. If the
enterprise selects payment and overtime system according to the employees’ opinion, it
increases productivity of them. So, employee participation has a positive effect on performance
and motivation. And also, if has any option then organization provide opportunity to employee
to sharing their opinion to all sector in that case they also get motivate and will done better
performance. Employee participation provide satisfaction of employees and an increase in
productivity and profit. It empowers the employer to achieve the organizational goal.
References
1. https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JBT/article/view/9984
2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
350156796_A_Survey_Report_on_the_Garment_Workers_of_Bangladesh_2020