The Ready-made Garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh has been playing a vital role in generating employment opportunity for last two decades. At present, around 5600 factories are operating in this country and 4.2 million workers are working in this sector. More than 82% of Bangladesh's export earnings come from the garment industry. This paper focuses on measuring and comparing the level of job satisfaction between inside EPZ garment factories' workers and outside EPZ garment factories' workers considering the dissimilar laws and rules in Bangladesh. In this study, the sample consisted of 180 respondents, which is randomly selected from two inside EPZ garment factories and two outside EPZ garment factories. These workers were surveyed through convenience sampling with structured questionnaire from May to June 2016 concentrating the key influential factors that significantly impact on their level of satisfaction. The statistical computer package SPSS was used to analyze the data. This study revealed that inside EPZ garments factories' workers are satisfied with their working environment and yearly increment. On the other hand, outside EPZ garment factories' workers are satisfied toward their working environment and earned leave. However, both the areas workers are dissatisfied regarding the supervisor's attitudes. Finally, the recommendations were provided based on the findings of the study.

Bangladesh garments industries created opportunities by creating employment for millions of workers. The export sector is playing a major role for increasing countries Gross Domestic Growth, GDP. The export sector raises income and employment within the country. The garment workers contribute a lot to the society and they work all day long. The workers need support to get worker's rights and to improve employment situation within the factory. Bangladesh needs to improve garment workers conditions and responsive about the impact of globalization. Bangladeshi garment industries face the challenges of globalization and should compete in the global market. The deprivation of garment worker's right might be the loss in garment industry to show the labor standard position in the near future. This book examine the changes of worker's employment situation within the changing scenario of global competition for the garment sector.

There is a paramount importance of Job Satisfaction of the employees of an organization for the smooth functioning of its work. It has substantial impact on workers' performance. RMG workers of Bangladesh are enormous in number and instrumental to the economic growth of Bangladesh. But the salary and other benefits of these workers are very low compared to that of other industrial sectors. Sometimes, the salary and benefits are not even paid on time to the workers. As a result, a serious concern has been raised by the national and international stakeholders about the job satisfaction of RMG workers. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the job satisfaction factors of the RMG workers and providing suggestions for the improvement of present situation. For analyzing data multivariate analysis techniques are used by using Smart PLS, and SPSS. Salary and benefits, supervisor's behavior, work and family life, working condition and the working environment are identified as factors having influence on job satisfaction of RMG workers in Bangladesh. Results show that the salary and benefits, supervisor's behavior, work and family life are significantly related to the job satisfaction of the workers. This study suggests that for ensuring job satisfaction of the RMG workers in Bangladesh the policy makers should focus more on salary and benefits, supervisors' behavior, and work and family life of the workers.

In last few decades, Bangladesh Readymade Garment (RMG) Industry of Bangladesh has become a leading manufacturing industry in the world with its constant growth. The Industry is of major importance to the national economy of Bangladesh as it contributes more than 80% of the country's export earnings that amounts to about USD nineteen billion. The number of workers currently in this industry is more than 4.2 million and the number of factories is 5000 in different sizes. Despite this impressive growth, the performance of the workers in this industry is poor. Hence, this study aims at identifying the work stress factors and their impact on work performance of the RMG workers in Bangladesh. This used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Respondent workers were selected by simple random sampling method from ten garment companies that are located in the periphery of Dhaka city. The impact of the stress of the workers was assessed by structured questionnaires. Two hundred ten readymade garment workers were interviewed from ten companies of different sizes for this study. Factor analysis was conducted to identify the factors related to stress of the workers that have impact on the work performance of the workers. Regression analysis was carried out to examine the impact of stress on workers' performance. The results show that the factors concerned with work stress symptoms are frustration and feeling of inefficiency, decrease satisfaction at work, problem of concentration at work and decrease of decision making ability. The performance impact factors are work pressure and frustration, understaffed workplace and work in holidays, job insecurity and pressure to complete the assignments. This study suggests that the policy makers should focus on the stress factors identified in this research that have impact on the performance of the workers in this industry.

Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.

Naila Kabeer examines the lives of women workers in different urban centers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade.

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