Few days back, I put on the radio and heard that one can acquire the services of a plumber, electrician through Employment Exchange and it got me thinking why not for a sewing operator? Skill management has always challenged industries and garment being a labour-intensive one, such challenges have always been feared yet faced.
What is skill management?
Skill management is the practice of understanding the skills required in any role and developing and deploying people to the roles matching their skill-set. Skill fitment is one of the key challenges faced by any organization.
To tackle skill management, any organization needs to clearly understand the skill level of its people. But this is highly challenging task considering our industry works predominantly with migratory and contract labour because of the seasonal nature of the business. Each day a production manager is faced with a task to identify the skill level of each operator and allocating operations accordingly.
The needs of our industry are very specific; performance is expected from shop floor employees (operators/helpers, etc.) and we have to determine the skill development programme through a matrix to monitor the level of individual skill profile and plan for continuous improvement.
Employment Exchange, which is actively marketing its services, registers the skill level of various artisans, then why not registration and deployment of sewing operators for the garment industry?
What is skill management?
Skill management is the practice of understanding the skills required in any role and developing and deploying people to the roles matching their skill-set. Skill fitment is one of the key challenges faced by any organization.
To tackle skill management, any organization needs to clearly understand the skill level of its people. But this is highly challenging task considering our industry works predominantly with migratory and contract labour because of the seasonal nature of the business. Each day a production manager is faced with a task to identify the skill level of each operator and allocating operations accordingly.
The needs of our industry are very specific; performance is expected from shop floor employees (operators/helpers, etc.) and we have to determine the skill development programme through a matrix to monitor the level of individual skill profile and plan for continuous improvement.
Employment Exchange, which is actively marketing its services, registers the skill level of various artisans, then why not registration and deployment of sewing operators for the garment industry?
