HR Analytics for Decision Making in Apparel Industry

HR Analytics for Decision Making in Apparel Industry

Apparel sector is contributing to the Gross Domestic Production in the country and further it is
resulting 40 % of the exports in the country (Jayawardena, 2020). There are more than 300 factories in Sri Lanka and contributing to 15 % of the employment opportunities. Thus, apparel sector is highly labor intensive. With regards to this, application of HR analytics in decision making is very important (Fernando, et al., 2020).

HR (Human resource) can be recorded as the most important resource in the organizations specially in

the manufacturing organizations (Gardas, et al., 2018). This is the collection of the people to create the workforce of an organization. HR analytics can be referred to as a tool which is using the database of human capital to make the different decisions (Mohammed & Quddus, 2019). It is a must to use this in managing the HR and making decisions in apparel industry due to many reasons.


   

      “HR analytics helps in managing the policies and decisions which helps the organization culture”

          HR analytics is consisting with several applications and helped in several areas

           

It is very important to have the better HR in apparel sector as the outcomes in the products and the product quality is depending on the quality of human resource. Thus, HR analytic is important in decision making applications (Kremer, 2018).

Different advantages are there in the HR analytics which can be important in the apparel sector. Some of them are as follows.

  • Improving the hiring applications which resulting better hiring
  • Attrition can be reduced
  • Experience in the HR can be increased and improved
  • Workforce can be ended up with the productive applications
  • Improving the pieces in the organizations
  • Trust can be gained in human resource 

 There are three types of analytics which can be used in the decision making in Apparel sector. 


These three types of the analytics are important in the decision making and it needed to be made sure the HR analytics is using these to have proper future plans to get maximum from the human resource which has been used in the operational activities. Along with the applications used here, it is true that the HR analytics in decision making is a must to use in the organizations (Specially in apparel sector) to get more results and the favorable outcomes to meet future needs (Jabir, et al., 2019)

 




References

Fernando, K., Arambepola, C. & Niles, N., 2020. The opportunities and risks for achieving sustainable labour in a global value chain: A case study from Sri Lanka’s apparel sector, s.l.: Occasional Paper Series, (65).

Gardas, B. B., Raut, R. D. & Narkhede, B., 2018. Modelling the challenges to sustainability in the textile and apparel (T&A) sector: A Delphi-DEMATEL approach, s.l.: Sustainable Production and Consumption, 15, pp.96-108.

Jabir, B., Falih, N. & Rahmani, K., 2019. HR analytics a roadmap for decision making: case study., s.l.: Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 15(2), pp.979-990..

Jayawardena, N. S., 2020. Operational efficiency to financial efficiency-a case study on'apparel sector'in Sri Lanka, s.l.: International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 36(4), pp.440-454.

Kremer, K., 2018. HR analytics and its moderating factors, s.l.: Vezetéstudomány-Budapest Management Review, 49(11), pp.62-68.

Mohammed, D. & Quddus, A., 2019. HR analytics: a modern tool in HR for predictive decision making, s.l.: Journal of Management, 6(3).


Comments

  1. KAMAL C. DIVITOTAWELANovember 8, 2021 at 9:56 AM

    Good article...Thanks for Sharing..

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  2. Irfan AlibahNovember 8, 2021 at 10:49 AM

    The article is with good citation and references.
    Further It would be great if the article elaborates the impacts/ results of the decision making by using the HR Analytics tool. Ideally a real case scenario with an example.

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  3. Vishwa GunarathnaNovember 8, 2021 at 3:51 PM

    Very interesting topic Bec of no one talk about deeply in this subject in open forearm. “HR Analytics for Decision Making in Apparel Industry”. Good job.

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  4. Sanjaya BandaranayakeNovember 9, 2021 at 8:29 AM

    Human resource analytics strongly supports in decision making. It helps to measure overall performance of the business as well

    ReplyDelete
  5. Asitha DNovember 10, 2021 at 7:02 AM

    In the apparel industry is a human intensity industry more than the automation. So skill worker is very important factor. So need to have proper HR system from recruiting to life time employment. Because hiring the skills is very difficult from the outside the community. From this article give good eye open. Thank you very much for good learning article

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  6. Thushara WattegedaraNovember 10, 2021 at 6:46 PM

    Garments sector is mainly human resources intensive field and manpower is key resource. Hence human resource management is very important factor of the garments manufacturing and it is very important that the human resource management team having analytics and taking decisions based on their analytics rather than taking decisions blindly or just assuming. It is good trend that the HRM is coming up with smart way and it will really help organizations to get good numbers from all aspects of their KPI.

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  7. Nuwansiri RathnayakeNovember 11, 2021 at 4:07 AM

    HR analytics is most important for correct decision making in every organization. Through experience we have known that there are deep relationship between employees and Human resources management. Therefore HR analytics is really important to take decisions which is highly impacting to company profit. Appreciate bringing this valuable topic for your blog.

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  8. Steffni_DNovember 13, 2021 at 6:37 AM

    Even though I'm not in this industry, after reading this got an idea about the decision making in apparel industry.. An important article

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  9. PrabathNovember 22, 2021 at 11:04 PM

    HR Analytics for Decision Making is very important for all the organization to be successes and sustain its good article thanks for shearing ,

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  10. Sandya December 12, 2021 at 8:38 AM

    Decision making is a main leadership quality. I got new knowledge by reading your article about decision making in apparel industry. Thank you

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  11. Shanaka herathDecember 17, 2021 at 10:06 PM

    Direct impact to business how HRM taking decision. It performed by linking HR practices to business outcomes and using meaningful information instead of gut feelings. Any organization has more challenge to find out right person for right work. It will impact productivity and efficiency. So.. HRM analytics help to keep data for employee performance and can provide to take proper decision. This is not only important to Appealers industry it is important to any of the industry.
    In the current highly competitive business context, business intelligence, decision support, and
    analytics have become pillars of decision-making (Phillips-Wren et al., 2015).

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