Management has a special significance and importance in the all types of business organizations in these present days. The success of any business organization, it may be trading or manufacturing is depends upon the skilled management. Today's business world is very competitive and to cope with this competition businesses must have excellent, dynamic and skilled management at the different levels of the business organizations. Generally the management is pertaining with the proper planning of the programmes for the achievement of predetermined objectives of the business organization as well as individual employees. Obviously, the success of business organization is mostly depends upon organization, management and administration.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a management function that helps manager's recruit, select, train and develops members for an organization. Obviously, HRM is concerned with the people's dimension in organizations.It is rather difficult to say spontaneously what management means, though we have studied a course in Management. But it is necessary to recall what management is before studying Human Resource Management (HRM). Management has been defined by Mary Parker Follett as, "the art of getting things done through people." HRM Practices are HR Planning, Recruitment & Selection, Training & Development, Wage & Salary Administration. As the present study is concerned with HRM practices in Sugar industry, an attempt is made by the researcher in the ensuring analysis to present in general terms of the HRM practices relating to Sugar industry.

This research is conducted to study human resource management (HRM) practices in the public sector and investigate the association of HRM practices with the organizational efficiency. For this purpose, primary data has been collected through questionnaire from 62 employees working in a state owned entity (SOE) namely Kushtia Sugar Mills Ltd (KSML), which is operating under Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC). Simple random sampling was used to select respondents from KSML. Correlation analysis, regression analysis and T-test were carried out through SPSS software to examine the relationship between the selected HRM practices and organizational efficiency of KSML. The analysis of the opinion and perception collected from the respondents revealed that, there is a positive relationship between effective HRM practices (especially recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, involvement and communication and employee relationship) and the organizational efficiency of KSML. Among all other HRM practices employee relationship has significant impact on the organizational efficiency of KSML.

This research paper highlights the importance of human resource practices in selected sugar factories. Human resource is one of the most vital assets of an organization. It makes the other resources move and provides a wide variety of activities in different functional areas. Human resource handles all physical and financial resources in an organization. Without its efforts, the non-human resources remain idle. The sugar industry plays a very significant role in the development of rural areas. The economy of western Maharashtra and its vicinity is highly dominated by the sugar industry situated in this area. This paper examines the role of human resource workforce (organized - managerial level and below-managerial level staff and unorganized - sugarcane cutters) and its contribution to the development of sugar factories. It also examines the human resource practices adopted by the selected sugar factories from cooperative and private sectors. This study covers the areas of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Belgaum districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka states.

Sugar Industry is the second largest agro based industry in India, next to textile. This is the only industry, located in the rural part of the country. About five crores of sugarcane farmers, their dependants and a large mass of labourers are involved in sugarcane cultivation, harvesting and other related ancillary activities. This constitutes 7.5 per cent of the rural population. Besides, over a five lakhs of skilled and semi-skilled workers, mostly from the rural areas, are employed in the sugar industry, and the annual wage bill of the industry is around Rs.1,000 crores, per year. Presently, Indian sugar industry contributes 15 per cent of the world sugar production. Though, there are more than 700 sugar mills in different stages of installation, almost 450 mills alone are in operation. The annual turnover of the industry goes to Rs.30,000 crores, and cane growers, use to get Rs.6,000 crores, as sugarcane price.

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