Digital Human Resource Management: Prospects & Challenges for Garments Industries in Bangladesh

Abstract

Digital human resource management (HRM) popularly known as Electronic HRM has got immense popularity around the world including least developing countries like Bangladesh due to rapid automation, tech-based business era, presence and involvement larger community online, real-time response, gaining efficiency, and distance handling of HR in the workplace. Application of digital HR practices has faster the process, reduces cost, saves times, recruiting through social media, establish a brand and enhance the name and fame of the organization to the global community providing a platform of Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The study mainly reveals the current status, prospects, and challenges of using digital HRM in the garments industry in Bangladesh. To serve this purpose a focused group discussion has been conducted of most renowned eight garment factories along with digital HRM practices therein. Being the second position of readymade garments products exporting countries Bangladesh is certainly on the right track to capitalize on it with lots of prospects and challenges. Meanwhile, number one ranked China is moving on advancing on the automation.to keep track of this competition Bangladesh should not lag. Hence, the proper application of digital HR practices can be blessed to convert the mass into human resources.

Keywords: Digital HRM, garments industry, HRIS, social media, prospects, and challenges.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-7-03

Publication date:March 31^st 2020