Background of the Program

Bangladesh has achieved notable success in many socio-economic areas and is moving towards a higher growth trajectory. The ready-made garment (RMG) industry is one of the largest contributors in that run. Despite being the largest exporter and one of the largest employers of the country, this sector is struggling to achieve its full potential due to an acute skill shortage in mid to top-level managers. To achieve the target of RMG exports, the Government has taken initiatives to produce a pool of skilled managers. To make this initiative successful, the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka with support from the Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh, is offering a Post Graduate Diploma in Garment Business (PGD-GB).

Objectives of the Program

To produce world-class managers for Garment Industry who will be able to incorporate industry best practices and be a change agent.

1. Name of the Program

Post Graduate Diploma in Garment Business (PGD-GB).

2. Mission and Vision of the Program

To produce a cadre of smart, confident, and efficient mangers who will lead the garment industry to elevate Bangladesh to be the number one garments exporting country of the world.

3. The Concept

To cater to the need of the Bangladeshi garment industry, we need to produce a new stream of differently bred managers through a customised PGD program. The sector urgently needs a huge number of ‘go-getter’ type managers who can get things done and can take the leadership of the industry in future so that our first generation entrepreneurs can retire peacefully leaving their ‘hand-grown child’ industry to a group of reliable and dependable corporate managers.

To produce this type of managers who can get things done, we need to instil or impart following five things in them:

  1. Personality/ Talent
  2. Aptitude
  3. Knowledge
  4. Knowhow /skill
  5. Attitude

Trainees will be coming to the program after their graduation. They will have done 15/16 years of schooling by then. Through these long years of schooling, they will already have formed their personality and aptitude. A short academic training program cannot do much on forming or reforming these qualities or characteristics of an individual. We will have to satisfy these needs through a rigorous selection process to select candidates with the right personality and aptitude. The challenge then is basically of a talent hunt. Fifty per cent of our problem will be solved if we can do the right selection.

The next twenty-five per cent of the problem will be to impart the relevant knowledge and know-how in them. This will be done through three modules of training of three months’ duration each. In the first module, they will be given the knowledge of basic management subjects. In the second module, they will be sent for industry attachment (i.e. internship) to acquire hands-on know-how of all activities carried out by machine operators to managers of all departments of the garment industry. In this process, they will be able to identify their lacks in knowledge of trades of the industry which they can make up in the third module - where industry experts from both home and abroad will teach them industry trade-related subjects.

In the third module, students will meet prominent industry leaders every week. These industry leaders will share their experiences and teach them how to tackle various challenges in their career.  In the process industry leaders will feel the sense of participation in training managers for them; that may make them obliged to employ students after their graduation.

The last twenty-five per cent of the problem is to instil the right kind of attitude in the students.  The whole range of pedagogy, environment and ambience in which knowledge, know-how and skills will be imparted on their inbuilt personality, will make them think and feel that they are different.

4. Duration of the Program

Total duration of the program will be nine months consisting of three modules of three months each. Total credit of the program will be 30.

 

Contact Details:

 

PGD-GB Program Office

IBA Library Building (1st Floor)

IBA, University of Dhaka

Phone: 0244610506; 01726417629

Email: seip@iba-du.edu

           sicip@iba-du.edu

Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

 

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