A New Approach to Staff Recruitment and Development for a Dyeing and Finishing Plant

Dundee textile, as a new dyeing and finishing plant on a Greenfield site, had the ideal opportunity to implement many of the most current ideas in management policies. With Japanese interests in the fledgling company, those policies were taken from a wide-ranging spectrum of experience, the resultant culture having the best of both worlds. This paper discusses recruitment, development and associated policies in the light of this mix interests. The culture that has developed from this background is outlined as a demonstration of the differences between much of today’s industry and what may be expected tomorrow