Challenges and Solutions in Plantation Industry HR: A Critical Analysis Report

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[NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN PLANTATION MANAGEMENT ]
[HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT]
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Table of Contents
1.0 Critically analyze the existing people challenges of plantation
industry in Sri Lanka. ...........................................................................................3
2.0 Explain how to improve the socio economic factors of plantation
community to face the above challenges.........................................................................4
3.0 Identify the areas of applying technology to improve labor
productivity of Plantation industry ................................................................................6
Reference ........................................................................................................................................ 8
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Task 1 – Critically analyze the existing people challenges of plantation
industry in Sri Lanka.
The plantation sector has made an important 50-year economic and social impact on Sri
Lanka. This includes the fact that it was one of the largest direct and indirect employment
producers as well as the leading foreign exchange earner until the mid-1980s. While being
roughly 145 years old, the Sri Lankan plantation business can be regarded to lack innovation.
Due to low labor and land productivity, rising production costs, and a relatively lower price
yield for food, this industry is currently facing major existential issues. This is primarily
because there is a lack of a creative orientation (Ministry of Plantation Industries, 2012).
The necessity of moving away from traditional labour practices within estates is a much
needed approach in addressing people challenges.
Given below are some of the challenges prevailing in the HR sector of the plantation
industry in Sri Lanka
High employee turnover
In the plantation sector there is a high tendency for employee turnover. A person's burden is
increased since just a small number of employees are committed to carrying out a variety of
different tasks. As a result, the work is stressful, which may be one of the factors
contributing to employee attrition. Additional potential causes include problems with
employee pay and salaries.
Labor shortage
As new chances arise, estate workers choose to work in the nearby industry or in an area
close to the estate and manual labor plays a significant role in the tea industry. Manual labor
is becoming scarce as a result of the expansion of educational opportunities and the younger
generation's desire and inclination to relocate to urban regions in search of technical or
white-collar work. Plantations are labor-intensive enterprises. One of the key production
components should be a sufficient labor force. Although though the majority of operational
work on estates involves semi-skilled people, plantations today face a number of difficulties,
including a scarcity of operational labor to carry out daily operations. The factory, estate,
and field levels must all adopt the new technologies. The estate workers have relatively low
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