HR STRATEGY IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY

HR Strategy in Textile Industry



HR Strategy in Textile Industry

Introduction

Admiral Sportswear is a recognised cricket and football based in United Kingdom. It is a world class company in the textile sector, which meets the customers and consumers demands, through innovative products and services. It also improves the speed, the flexibility and efficiency of work processes, enhances and develops its employees, creates value and wealth for shareholders and communities. People are the most important assets of the company. It motivates, meets, enhances and develops the people who are responsible for primary management of the company. Working environments are characterized by internationality, dynamism, tension in the result, cooperation, autonomy, and development of excellent skills. Flexibility and pro-activeness are the strategic goals for the company.

The training programs in the company guides and supports people in their personal and professional development growth paths within the group. The reward system recognizes the high performance and career potential. This paper will discuss the importance of HR in the textile sector in detail.

In this new era, hiring labour has become a specialized field. The main reason is skill development as technical jobs are increasingly complex and demand more professional skill. On the management and marketing level, the demand for knowledge and skills has increased in importance. Therefore, before providing training regarding the textile or garment to be designed training program, it covers the skills they will need in the long and short term success of the company.

Discussion

The textile industry in United Kingdom employs millions of people. To recruit skilled labour in the textile sector, appropriate training programs facilitate in providing well-qualified workforce. Therefore, the role of human resources has gained momentum of employing labour to meet the professional requirements of this sector and is well qualified. Therefore, much multinational collaboration has been observed between many companies and educational institutions now (Bargerstock 2000, 90).

Traditionally, the primary purpose of HRM has been administrative, which includes designing and administering programs, such as recruiting, training, performance evaluations, payroll, and benefits. A second purpose of HRM is being an employee advocate. HRM and human skills are no longer relegated to the status of variables adjustment, but considered an advantage of resources embodying durable. The concept of competence acts as articulation, theory and practice, between HRM and strategy, operating both at the individual, group/organisational and strategic. In this context, the competence approach is to align the recruitment, compensation, training, job mobility and reclassified: it is now becoming a true strategic variable for the company. This is "to identify employees holding strategic skills of the inter management taken to optimize their management”. The paper will discuss the importance of HR strategy in the textile sector of United Kingdom and will specifically discuss its implementation in the Admiral Sportswear.

Human Resources in Textile Industry

The arrival of human resource practices in the textile sector was slow compared to other industrial sectors. However, as globalisation increased competition in the world, development of human resources become essential ...